Bible Verses About Ancient Samaria: Repeopled from Assyria

And the king of the Assyrians brought people from Babylon, and from Cutha, and from Avah, and from Emath, and from Sepharvaim: and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.

And when they began to dwell there, they feared not the Lord: and the Lord sent lions among them, which killed them.