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Ezra 4:2

Compare II Kings 17:24-28 notes.

Since the days - Esar-haddon reigned from 681-668 BC Thus, the Samaritans speak of what had taken place at least 130 years previously. There appear to have been at least three colonizations of Samaria by the Assyrian kings. The first is mentioned in II Kings 17:24. Later in his reign Sargon added to these first settlers an Arabian element. Some 30 or 40 years afterward, Esarhaddon, his grandson, largely augmented the population by colonists drawn especially from the southeast parts of the Empire Ezra 4:10. Thus, the later Samaritans were an exceedingly mixed race.

Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Ezra 4:2:

Ezra 4:9-10
Job 13:15
Isaiah 7:8

 

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