He bought the hill of Samaria from Shemer for two talents of silver and built a city on the hill, calling it Samaria, after Shemer, the name of the former owner of the hill.

• 暗利用二他连得银子、向撒玛买了撒玛利亚山．在山上造城、就按著山的原主撒玛的名、给所造的城起名叫撒玛利亚。