Lesson 334: THE SAMARITAN WOMAN AT THE WELL

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INTRODUCTION. Over 700 years before Jesus was born, the ten northern tribes of

Israel were conquered by the very powerful and fierce nation of Assyria. The

Assyrians took many Israelites captive and carried them to other lands which they

had conquered. Then the Assyrians brought other peoples that they had conquered

to Israel to live. These foreigners married the Israelites that had been left in the land

which resulted in a mixed race of people. These people of mixed race were called

Samaritans, and there was much hatred between them and the Jews.

Near the base of Mt. Gerizim in Samaria is a well. Although the Old Testament does

not mention when Jacob dug this well, both Jewish and Christian tradition associate

the well with the patriarch Jacob. Today a chapel has been built over the well.