Sacrifice as the Passover to the Lord your God an animal from your flock or herd at the place the Lord will choose as a dwelling for his Name. Deuteronomy 16:2 After the Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed in AD 70, sacrifices ceased. Well, that’s not entirely true. The Samaritans continue to this day to do one annual sacrifice: the Passover lamb. They did not view Jerusalem as the place to gather but instead Mt. Gerazim about 30 miles north. They used to have a temple there, but it is long gone now. Their calendar doesn’t entirely match the Jewish […]
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Samaria
In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah, Omri became king of Israel, and he reigned twelve years, six of them in Tirzah. He bought the hill of Samaria from Shemer for two talents of silver and built a city on the hill, calling it Samaria, after Shemer, the name of the former owner of the hill. 1 Kings 16:23-24 We had another field study on Sunday, this time journeying north into the West Bank to the ancient region known as Samaria. One thing that made the day stand out was that all the sites we visited were new […]