Bible Verses About Ancient Samaria: Repeopled from Assyria

The king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Avva, and from Hamath and Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel; and they possessed Samaria, and lived in the cities of it.

So it was, at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they didn’t fear the LORD: therefore the LORD sent lions among them, which killed some of them.