{"id":15051,"date":"2024-09-08T10:22:12","date_gmt":"2024-09-08T15:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=15051"},"modified":"2024-09-09T10:29:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T15:29:12","slug":"a-question-about-the-the-samaritans-found-in-2-kings-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/15051\/a-question-about-the-the-samaritans-found-in-2-kings-17\/","title":{"rendered":"A Question about the the Samaritans found in 2 Kings 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Just a quick question\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Did I understand this correctly?\u00a0 The Samaritans weren\u2019t ever Jews, but people who were sent from other countries by a foreign king into the land of Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Wendell<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">==========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>That is correct, Wendell.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>2Kings 17 tells the sad story of how the Assyrian king deported the Israelites from northern and central Israel, and replaced them with foreigners.\u00a0\u00a0That chapter also tells why God did it.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">==========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">So, they were never half Jews?? I thought they were half, or in some way descendent of Jews??<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Jenny<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">==========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>They are half-Jews only in a religious sense.\u00a0 They adopted some of the Jews&#8217; ways.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Tell us what you think:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WitnessofSpirit\/status\/1833165533459460353\">https:\/\/x.com\/WitnessofSpirit\/status\/1833165533459460353<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John, Just a quick question\u2026 Did I understand this correctly?\u00a0 The Samaritans weren\u2019t ever Jews, but people who were sent from other countries by a foreign king into the land of Israel. Wendell ========== That is correct, Wendell. 2Kings 17 tells the sad story of how the Assyrian king deported the Israelites from northern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15051"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15051"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15053,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15051\/revisions\/15053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}