John 4:9 Cross References - NSB

⁹ The woman of Samaria asked: »How is it that you being a Jew ask for a drink from me? I am a woman of Samaria.« [The Jews did not associate with Samaritans.] (Not in early manuscripts.)

²⁴ Then the king of Assyria took men from Babylon and from Cuthah and Avva and Hamath and Sepharvaim, and put them in the towns of Samaria in place of the children of Israel. They acquired Samaria for their heritage, living in its towns. ²⁵ When they first lived there they did not respect Jehovah. So Jehovah sent lions among them, causing some of them to die. ²⁶ They said to the king of Assyria: »The nations you have taken as prisoners and put in the towns of Samaria have no knowledge of the way of the god of the land. He has sent lions among them causing their death. This is because they have no knowledge of his way.« ²⁷ Then the king of Assyria gave orders, saying: »Send one of the priests you took from there. Let him live there and teach the people the way of the god of the land.« ²⁸ So one of the priests they had taken away as a prisoner from Samaria came back. He lived in Bethel and taught them how to worship Jehovah. ²⁹ EVERY NATION MADE GODS FOR THEMSELVES. They put them in the houses of the high places the Samaritans had made. ³⁰ The men of Babylon made Succothbenoth and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima, ³¹ The Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites gave their children to be burned in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim. ³² So they worshipped Jehovah. They appointed priests from the people for the high places. The priests were to make offerings for them in the houses of the high places. ³³ They worshipped Jehovah, but they gave honor to their gods like the nations did from whom they had been taken as prisoners. ³⁴ So to this day they go on in their old ways. They do not worship Jehovah. They do not keep his orders, his ways, or the law Jehovah gave to the children of Jacob. They are the ones he gave the name Israel. ³⁵ Jehovah made an agreement with them and gave them orders, saying: You are to have no other gods. You are not to worship them or be their servants or make them offerings. ³⁶ »Jehovah took you out of the land of Egypt with his great power and his outstretched arm. He is your God, to whom you are to give worship and make offerings: ³⁷ »You are to obey and do forever the law he put in writing for you. You are to have no other gods. ³⁸ »You are to keep in memory the agreement I made with you. You are to have no other gods. ³⁹ »You are to worship Jehovah your God. It is he who will give you salvation from the hands of all who are against you.« ⁴⁰ But they paid no attention and they continued in their old way. ⁴¹ So these nations worshiped Jehovah and they still served the images (idols) they had made. Their children and their children's children did the same. They do just as their fathers did to this very day.

¹ News came to the enemies of Judah and Benjamin that the people who had come back were building a Temple to Jehovah, the God of Israel. ² They approached Zerubbabel and the heads of families and said: »Let us help you build for we are servants of your God, the same as you. We have been making offerings to him from the days of Esarhaddon, king of Assyria, who sent us here.« ³ But Zerubbabel and Jeshua and the rest of the heads of families in Israel said to them: »You have no part with us in the building of a house for our God. We will do the work for Jehovah, the God of Israel, as Cyrus, king of Persia, has given us orders.« ⁴ The people of the land discouraged the people of Judah and tried to make them afraid to go on building. ⁵ They hired men to work against them and kept them from accomplishing their plans during the reign of Cyrus, king of Persia, till Darius became king. ⁶ When Ahasuerus first became king, they put on record a statement against the people of Judah and Jerusalem. ⁷ In the time of Artaxerxes, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his friends, sent a letter to Artaxerxes, king of Persia, writing it in the Aramaic language. ⁸ Rehum, the chief ruler, and Shimshai the scribe, sent a letter against Jerusalem, to Artaxerxes the king as follows: ⁹ The letter was sent by Rehum, the chief ruler, and Shimshai the scribe and their friends; the Dinaites and the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Shushanchites (people of Susa), the Dehaites, the Elamites, ¹⁰ The rest of the nations the great and noble Osnappar took over and put in Samaria and the rest of the country over the river: ¹¹ »This is a copy of the letter that they sent to Artaxerxes the king: ‘Your servants living across the river send these words: ¹² »We give news to the king that the Jews who came from you have come to us at Jerusalem. They are again building that uncontrolled and evil town. The walls are complete and they are repairing the bases. ¹³ »The king may be certain that when the town and its wall are completely rebuilt they will pay no tax or payment in goods or forced payments, and in the end it will be a cause of loss to the kings. ¹⁴ »Because we are responsible to the king, and it is not right for us to see the king's honor damaged, we have sent to give the king word of these things. ¹⁵ »That way a search may be made in the book of the records of your fathers. You will see in the book of the records that this town has been uncontrolled. It has been a cause of trouble to kings and countries. There were outbursts against authority in the past. That is the reason the town was laid waste. ¹⁶ »We give you word, that if this town and its walls is completely rebuilt, your power in the country across the river will end.« ¹⁷ The king sent an answer to Rehum, the chief ruler, and Shimshai the scribe, and their friends living in Samaria, and to the rest of those across the river, saying, »Peace to you: ¹⁸ »The meaning of the letter you sent to us has been made clear to me, ¹⁹ »I gave orders for a search to be made, and it is certain that in the past this town has made trouble for kings, and that outbursts against authority have taken place there. ²⁰ »Further, there have been great kings in Jerusalem. They ruled over all the country across the river. Taxes and tribute was paid to them. ²¹ »Give an order now that these men are to do no more work and that the building of the town is to be stopped till I give an order. ²² »Be sure to do this with all care. Do not let trouble increase to damage the king.« ²³ Then, after reading the king's letter, Rehum and Shimshai the scribe and their friends went quickly to Jerusalem, to the Jews to compel them by force to stop. ²⁴ So the work of the house of God at Jerusalem was stopped, till the second year of the rule of Darius, king of Persia.

¹ Now, Sanballat, hearing that we were building the wall, was very angry, and in his wrath made sport of the Jews. ² And in the hearing of his countrymen and the army of Samaria he said: »What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they make themselves strong? Will they make offerings? Will they get the work done in a day? Will they make the stones that have been burned come again out of the dust?«

⁵ Jesus sent the twelve. He gave them orders not to go to the people of the nations and not to go to the Samaritans.

⁵² He sent messengers ahead of him. They entered the village of the Samaritans to get ready for him. ⁵³ They did not receive him because he traveled to Jerusalem. ⁵⁴ When his disciples James and John saw this they said: »Lord, do you want us to request fire from heaven to consume them?« ⁵⁵ He turned and rebuked them. ⁵⁶ They went to another village.

³³ »Then a Samaritan arrived where he was. He was moved with compassion when he saw him.

¹⁶ He fell on his face at Jesus feet and thanked him. He was a Samaritan. ¹⁷ Jesus answered: »Were all ten cleansed? Where are the nine? ¹⁸ »Were the others not willing to return with this foreigner to give glory to God? ¹⁹ He said: »Arise and go your way. Your faith has made you whole.«

²⁷ His disciples came and wondered why he talked with the woman. Yet no one asked: »What are you looking for? Why did you talk to her?«

⁴⁸ The Jews answered: »Do we not speak correctly that you are a Samaritan and have a demon?«

⁸ »You will receive power, when the Holy Spirit comes on you and you will be my witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.«

²⁸ He said to them: »You know that it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to keep company, or approach someone of another nation. But God revealed to me that I should not call any man defiled or unclean.