Capital of the Northern Kingdom of Israel
The ruins of Samaria sit atop a hill overlooking the fertile Jezreel Valley, a strategic location that made it the perfect capital for the Northern Kingdom of Israel. We've climbed these same slopes where kings like Omri and Ahab built their palaces and temples. This map shows not just the city itself but its relationship to other key biblical sites: from the tribal territories of Ephraim and Manasseh to the trade routes that connected it to the wider ancient world. In the Bible, Samaria is both a place of power and prophecy - the stage for stories of Elijah and Elisha, and later, the setting for Jesus’s parable of the Good Samaritan.
