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== The mountains of Samaria ==


[[Amos 3]]:9  "Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof."
The Mountains<Ref name="hare">{{02022}}</Ref> of Samaria<Ref name="šōmərōwn">{{08111}}</Ref> seems almost redundant since Samaria by itself means "watch mountain". It is from the word Shamar<Ref name="shamar">{{08104}}</Ref> to keep guard through observation as in keep watch like watchmen. Everywhere you see ShinMemReish it has something to do with sight, observation and being a watchmen. The word mountain appears in the text as hare (הָרֵ֣י) which appears several time in the Biblical text but is almost always translated "My mountain"<Ref>Isaiah 14:25 ... in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot; Isaiah 49:11 ...And I will make all my mountains a way; Isaiah 65:9 ...an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect; Ezekiel 38:21 ...for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith; Zechariah 14:5 ... [to] the valley of the mountains; for the valley  </Ref>
[[Amos 4]]:1  "Hear this word, ye kine<Ref name="kine">{{06510}}</Ref> of [[Bashan]]<Ref name="Bashan">{{01316}}</Ref>, that are in the mountain of [[Samaria]], which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink."
How did the cattle on the mountain oppress the poor?
Some suggest that this oppression was the "laying heavy taxes upon them; exacting more of them than they are able to pay; lessening their wages for work done, or withholding it from them; or by taking from them that little they have, and so reducing them to the utmost extremity, and refusing to do them justice in courts of judicature: which say to their masters, bring, and let us drink;"
But if the cows of Bashan represents "ye rich of substance" as paraphrased in the Targum<Ref>[https://biblehub.com/commentaries/gill/amos/4.htm Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible]</Ref> we may equate this passage with the sin of [[Sodom]].
There were taxes like there were in [[Nimrod]]'s [[Babylon]] and [[Sumer]] which funded their goddesses of the "[[turtledove]]".
: "Kimchi, who interprets these words of the wives of great men, supposes their husbands are here addressed, who are, and acknowledged to be, their masters or lords; see 1 Peter 3:6; whom they call upon to bring them money taken from the poor, or for which they have sold them, that they may have wherewith to eat and drink, fare sumptuously, and live in a grand manner, feasting themselves and their visitors: or these are the words of inferior officers to superior ones, desiring they might have leave to pillage the poor, that so they might live in a more gay and splendid manner, and in rioting and drunkenness, in chambering and wantonness. So the Targum, "give us power, that we may spoil it." <Ref>[https://biblehub.com/commentaries/gill/amos/4.htm Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible]</Ref>
This lead to the people  offering "a sacrifice of thanksgiving with [[leaven]]"  [[Amos 4]]:5which included men who [[exercise authority]]<Ref name="exauth">{{exauth}}</Ref>  providing the [[priests]] with [[force]]d offerings which is [[idolatry]] <Ref name="Isidolatry">{{Isidolatry}}</Ref> and a "hook" and a [[snare]]<Ref name="snaretrap">{{snaretrap}}</Ref> which destroys liberty<Ref name="desliberty">{{desliberty}}</Ref> among the [[masses]].<Ref name="masses">{{massesnf}}</Ref>


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The mountains of Samaria

Amos 3:9 "Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof."

The Mountains[1] of Samaria[2] seems almost redundant since Samaria by itself means "watch mountain". It is from the word Shamar[3] to keep guard through observation as in keep watch like watchmen. Everywhere you see ShinMemReish it has something to do with sight, observation and being a watchmen. The word mountain appears in the text as hare (הָרֵ֣י) which appears several time in the Biblical text but is almost always translated "My mountain"[4]


Amos 4:1 "Hear this word, ye kine[5] of Bashan[6], that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink."

How did the cattle on the mountain oppress the poor?

Some suggest that this oppression was the "laying heavy taxes upon them; exacting more of them than they are able to pay; lessening their wages for work done, or withholding it from them; or by taking from them that little they have, and so reducing them to the utmost extremity, and refusing to do them justice in courts of judicature: which say to their masters, bring, and let us drink;"


But if the cows of Bashan represents "ye rich of substance" as paraphrased in the Targum[7] we may equate this passage with the sin of Sodom.

There were taxes like there were in Nimrod's Babylon and Sumer which funded their goddesses of the "turtledove".

"Kimchi, who interprets these words of the wives of great men, supposes their husbands are here addressed, who are, and acknowledged to be, their masters or lords; see 1 Peter 3:6; whom they call upon to bring them money taken from the poor, or for which they have sold them, that they may have wherewith to eat and drink, fare sumptuously, and live in a grand manner, feasting themselves and their visitors: or these are the words of inferior officers to superior ones, desiring they might have leave to pillage the poor, that so they might live in a more gay and splendid manner, and in rioting and drunkenness, in chambering and wantonness. So the Targum, "give us power, that we may spoil it." [8]

This lead to the people offering "a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven" Amos 4:5which included men who exercise authority[9] providing the priests with forced offerings which is idolatry [10] and a "hook" and a snare[11] which destroys liberty[12] among the masses.[13]

The land

Samaria is a historical and biblical name used for the central region of the ancient Land of Israel, bordered by Galilee to the north and Judaea to the south. For the beginning of the Common Era, Josephus set the Mediterranean Sea as its limit to the west, and the Jordan River as its limit to the east.

The spoil

Samaria was taken from the Canaanites and assigned to the Tribe of Joseph. After the death of King Solomon (c. 931 BC),

the northern tribes, including those of Samaria, separated from the southern tribes and established the separate Kingdom of Israel.

The Canaanites like Egypt Assyria and others were all banking on having one purse to bind the people like the golden calf did or the Corban of the Pharisees which Christ condemned. These schemes of the Nimrods and Cains of the world who were the benefactors and fathers of the earth since the beginning. Jesus was not a socialist. Socialism is incompatible with Christ's teachings.


Peaceful invasion of Canaan

The Bible seems to indicate that there was a military invasion of Palestine when Israel came into Canaan. But a growing number of archaeologists are now contending that such a violent invasion of Canaan by Israel is inconsistent with the archaeological record.


Evidently this modern view began to change in the 1930s when John Garstang and William F. Albright excavated at Jericho and Beitin. But the beliefs of some of the people of Judea at the time of Christ also thought military genocide was unacceptable. Certainly Christ would not and he seemed to be in agreement with Moses.


Yet, some still believe that ancient Israel was a theocracy in which God commanded the nation through prophets and gave them power and authority to carry out genocide and defeat what we imagine to be idolatrous peoples. And then we are suppose to believe Jesus changed the policy of God to "forgiveness and grace ... nonviolence, gentleness, and love".

If we are to believe Moses and Jesus were in agreement and the prophecy of Revelation [14] is that the 144,000[15] will be in harmony with both Moses and Jesus then was the Old Testament actually in harmony with the New Testament? Has sophistry crept into our modern translation & understanding of the Old Testament?

Is the references to the old fading away or being obsolete only refer to the apostasy of the Jews and Pharisees and not to what Moses intended from the beginning?

Who can learn the "song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb"?

According to Matt Flannagan and Paul Copan a two-pronged argument by Nicholas Wolterstorff s that “First, it is quite implausible that those who authorized the final form of the text [of Joshua] were affirming that all Canaanites were exterminated at God’s command. Second, the accounts that appear to say otherwise are utilizing extensive hyperbole and are not intended to be taken literally” (84-85)

They go into complex arguments suggesting that Joshua was using “hagiographic hyperbole".

But if we just look at the text we see.

"But thou shalt utterly destroy them; [namely], the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee:" (Deuteronomy 20:17)

The verb "destroy" in Hebrew is charam[16] and is translated "destroy" 34 times but "utterly" 10 times and "devote" twice. It is also translated "accursed", "consecrate", "forfeited", "flat nose", "utterly to make away", and "slay" at least once.

What if Joshua actually meant "devote" or "consecrate" some of those times that we see the translators making his use of the word charam mean "destroy"?

How can a single word mean "to ban, devote" also mean "destroy utterly, completely destroy" or mean "to consecrate, devote" but also mean "dedicate for destruction"?

As a noun charam has the same letters but s translated into "net" or "accursed thing" 9 times each. It is also translated "accursed" and "curse" 4 times each, and "cursed thing" 3 times, But is translated "devoted" or "devoted thing" a haf dozen times. [17]

The same noun charam is translated "destruction" twice 1 Kings 20:42 and Zechariah 14:11 which is also translated "devoted thing" twice in both Leviticus 27:28 and Numbers 18:14.

And the same word charam translated "dedicated thing" in Ezekiel 44:29 once is translated "destroyed" in 1 Samuel 15:21 .

The Hebrew word charam as noun and verb is composed of three letters ChetReishMem םרח. If we remove the letter Mem and replace it with the letter Deleth we get the word charad [18]

Did we read the Bible wrong in these accounts of genocide?

Canaanites also refers to a way in which people governed themselves. Like the Assyrians or Asuras and Egypt there are forms of governments, politics, and economies that are not compatible with Christ and His kingdom of God of righteousness. The covetous practices of the Corban of the Pharisees was condemned by Christ.

The city and the nation

The city of Samaria was founded by King Omri around 880 B.C. Peoples: Samaritans. Known For: Samaria was the capital of the northern kingdom of Israel; In the days of Christ, the relationship between the Jews and the Samaritans was strained because of deep-rooted prejudice.

Yet, Jesus speaks of the Good Samaritan.

The meaning and the metaphor

Samaria is not just a place but is a who as we see in Micah 1 in by to the transgression of Jacob FDR the idolatry of Baal.[19]

Since man chose to eat of the tree of knowledge he has always been manipulated by the sources of knowledge he becomes most dependent upon.

Your source of truth can make you a slave or set the captive free. The media is often destructive to the truth because it's motives are profit and power.

We also see the mountains of Samaria in Amos 4 which are supposed to be the watchmen who worn the people when they are straying from The Way and going the way of the Nicolaitan.



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  1. 02022 הַר‎ har HeyReish [har] a shortened form of 02042 HeyReishReish, Greek 717 Αρμαγεδων; n m; [BDB-223b, BDB-249a] [{See TWOT on 517 @@ "517a" }] AV-mountain 261, mount 224, hill 59, hill country 1, promotion 1; 546.
    1) hill, mountain, hill country, mount
    • ה Hey Expression--Thought, Speech, Action. Manifest seeds of thought and life. [Emphasize, jubilation, window, fence] (Numeric value: 5)
    • ר Reish Process of Clarification The "head" or "beginning". Life's revelation. [Head... Person head highest] (Numeric value: 200)
  2. 08111 שֹׁמְרוֹן‎ Shomërown [sho-mer-one’] from the act part of 08104 to keep, guard, observe,, Greek 4540 "guardianship" σαμαρεια; n pr loc; [BDB-1037b] [{See TWOT on 2414 @@ "2414d" }] AV-Samaria 109; 109
    Samaria= "watch mountain"
    1) the region of northern Palestine associated with the northern kingdom of the 10 tribes of Israel which split from the kingdom after the death of Solomon during the reign of his son Rehoboam and were ruled by Jeroboam 1 Kings 12:11
    2) the capital city of the northern kingdom of Israel located 30 miles (50 km) north of Jerusalem and 6 miles (10 km) northwest of Shechem
  3. 08104 שָׁמַר‎ shamar [shaw-mar’] a primitive root; v; [BDB-1036a] [{See TWOT on 2414 }] AV-keep 283, observe 46, heed 35, keeper 28, preserve 21, beware 9, mark 8, watchman 8, wait 7, watch 7, regard 5, save 2, misc 9; 468
    1) to keep, guard, observe, give heed
    1a) (Qal)
    1a1) to keep, have charge of
    1a2) to keep, guard, keep watch and ward, protect, save life
    1a2a) watch, watchman (participle)
    1a3) to watch for, wait for
    1a4) to watch, observe
    1a5) to keep, retain, treasure up (in memory)
    1a6) to keep (within bounds), restrain
    1a7) to observe, celebrate, keep (sabbath or covenant or commands), perform (vow)
    1a8) to keep, preserve, protect
    1a9) to keep, reserve
    1b) (Niphal)
    1b1) to be on one’s guard, take heed, take care, beware
    1b2) to keep oneself, refrain, abstain
    1b3) to be kept, be guarded
    1c) (Piel) to keep, pay heed
    1d) (Hithpael) to keep oneself from
  4. Isaiah 14:25 ... in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot; Isaiah 49:11 ...And I will make all my mountains a way; Isaiah 65:9 ...an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect; Ezekiel 38:21 ...for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith; Zechariah 14:5 ... [to] the valley of the mountains; for the valley
  5. 06510 פָרָה‎ parah [paw-raw’] from 06499 young bull; n f; [BDB-831a] [{See TWOT on 1831 @@ "1831b" }] AV-kine 18, heifer 6, cow 2; 26
    1) cow, heifer
  6. 01316 ^ןשׁב^ Bashan \@baw-shawn’\@ of uncertain derivation; ; n pr loc AV-Bashan 59, Bashanhavothjair + 02334; 60 Bashan= "fruitful" 1) a district east of the Jordan known for its fertility which was given to the half-tribe of Manasseh
    • ב BEIT Purpose: God Dwelling Place Below - from house or God's house here[household, in, into] 2
    • ש SHIN Eternal Flame of Revelation bound to the coal Divine Essence." [sun... teeth... consume destroy] 300
    If you divide the BEIT SHIN with a Vav you get confusion and shame
    If you add a Mem to BEIT SHIN you get spice and sweet odours
    If add a Lamed representing the hand of action BEIT SHIN Lamed Mem you get a word meaning in peace related to an office
    • נ ן NUN Heir to the Throne, Aramaic fish in the Mem (fish in flowing waters) or in the Hebrew the Nun may mean the kingdom. [fish moving... Activity life] 50
  7. Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible
  8. Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible
  9. Not exercise authority
    Matthew 20:25 "But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. But it shall not be so among you:..."
    Mark 10:42 "But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them. But so shall it not be among you:..."
    Luke 22:25 "And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. But ye [shall] not [be] so:..."
  10. Covetousness is idolatry
    Colossians 3:5 "Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: 6 For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:"
    Ephesians 5:5 "For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God."
    1 Corinthians 5:10 "Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. 11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat."
  11. Table as a snare
    Psalms 69:22-23 “Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap. 23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake."”
    Romans 11:9 “And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:”
    Proverbs 23:1 "When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what [is] before thee: 2 And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite. 3 Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat."
    Exodus 23:32 "Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. 33 They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee."
    Exodus 34:12 "Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:"
    Deuteronomy 7:16 "And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that [will be] a snare unto thee."
    Judges 2:2 "And ye shall make no league [covenant] with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this?"
    Proverbs 1:10 "My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not."
    Proverbs 6:2 “Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.” Swear not
    Luke 21:34 "And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and [so] that day come upon you unawares. 35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth."
    1 Timothy 6:9 "But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and [into] many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. 10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows."
  12. Destroyers of liberty
    "That the man who first ruined the Roman people twas he who first gave them treats and gratuities. But this mischief crept secretly and gradually in, and did not openly make it's appearance in Rome for a considerable time." Plutarch's Life of Coriolanus (c. 100 AD.) This would include Julius Caesar and eventually Augustus Caesar which is why Plutarch also reported, “The real destroyers of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations, and benefits.” This was a major theme of the Bible:
    There were tables of welfare which were both snares and a traps as David and Paul stated and Peter warned would make us merchandise and curse children. Proverbs 23 told us not to not eat the "dainties" offered at those tables of Rulers and Paul says in 1 Corinthians 10 we cannot eat of those tables and the table of the Lord. We are not to consent to their covetous systems of One purse or Corban which makes the word of God to none effect.
    We know when the masses become accustomed to those benefits of legal charity which are the rewards of unrighteousness provided by benefactors who exercise authority and the Fathers of the earth through the covetous practices that makes men merchandise and curse children as a surety for debt.
  13. "The masses continue with an appetite for benefits and the habit of receiving them by way of a rule of force and violence. The people, having grown accustomed to feed at the expense of others and to depend for their livelihood on the property of others... institute the rule of violence; and now uniting their forces massacre, banish, and plunder, until they degenerate again into perfect savages and find once more a master and monarch." Polybius 150 years before Christ.
  14. Revelation 15:2 And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, [and] over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God. 3 And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.
  15. Revelation 14:3 And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred [and] forty [and] four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.
  16. 02763 ^םרח^ charam \@khaw-ram’\@ a primitive root ChetReishMem; v; AV-destroy 34, utterly 10, devote 2, accursed 1, consecrate 1, forfeited 1, flat nose 1, utterly to make away 1, slay 1; 52 and is also a noun 02764 ^םרח^ cherem
    1) to ban, devote, destroy utterly, completely destroy, dedicate for destruction, exterminate
    1a) (Hiphil)
    1a1) to prohibit (for common use), ban
    1a2) to consecrate, devote, dedicate for destruction
    1a3) to exterminate, completely destroy
    1b) (Hophal)
    1b1) to be put under the ban, be devoted to destruction
    1b2) to be devoted, be forfeited
    1b3) to be completely destroyed
    2) to split, slit, mutilate (a part of the body)
    2a) (Qal) to mutilate
    2b) (Hiphil) to divide
    • ח Chet The Life Force - Dynamic nature of - cause and effect - give life and live.[fence, thread, hedge, chamber...cycle] (Numeric value: 8)
    • ר Reish Process of Clarification The "head" or "beginning". Life's revelation. [Head... Person head highest] (Numeric value: 200)
    • מ ם Mem Fountain of water, a flow, a fountain of the Divine Wisdom [massive, overpower chaos] (Numeric value: 40)
  17. Leviticus 27:21 But the field, when it goeth out in the jubile, shall be holy unto the LORD, as a field devoted <02764>; the possession thereof shall be the priest’s.
    Leviticus 27:28 Notwithstanding no devoted thing <02764>, that a man shall devote unto the LORD of all that he hath, both of man and beast, and of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing <02764> is most holy unto the LORD.
    Leviticus 27:29 None devoted <02764>, which shall be devoted of men, shall be redeemed; but shall surely be put to death.
    Numbers 18:14 Every thing devoted <02764> in Israel shall be thine.
  18. 02729 ^דרח^ charad \@khaw-rad’\@ a primitive root; v; AV-afraid 20, tremble 13, fray away 2, careful 1, discomfited 1, fray 1, quaked 1; 39
    1) to tremble, quake, move about, be afraid, be startled, be terrified
    1a) (Qal)
    1a1) to tremble, quake (of a mountain)
    1a2) to tremble (of people)
    1a3) to be anxiously careful
    1a4) to go or come trembling (with prep)
    1b) (Hiphil)
    1b1) to cause to tremble
    1b2) to drive in terror, rout (an army)
  19. 08111 שֹׁמְרוֹן‎ Shomërown [sho-mer-one’] from the act part of 08104 to keep, guard, observe,, Greek 4540 "guardianship" σαμαρεια; n pr loc; [BDB-1037b] [{See TWOT on 2414 @@ "2414d" }] AV-Samaria 109; 109
    Samaria= "watch mountain"
    1) the region of northern Palestine associated with the northern kingdom of the 10 tribes of Israel which split from the kingdom after the death of Solomon during the reign of his son Rehoboam and were ruled by Jeroboam 1 Kings 12:11
    2) the capital city of the northern kingdom of Israel located 30 miles (50 km) north of Jerusalem and 6 miles (10 km) northwest of Shechem