1 Kings xvi. 24.ZEMARITE, Samarœus. The tenth Son of Canaan was Father of the Zemarites, whom we think to have inhabited Simyra, a City of Phœnicia, near Orthosia. The two Chaldee Paraphrases, and St. Jerome, will have it, that they dwelt at Emesa in Syria. Some have imagin’d that they gave Name to the Mountain of Shomeron, upon which Samaria was afterwards built. But they did not observe the Difference between the Names Shomeronim,1 the Samaritans, and Zomerim,2 the Zemarites.
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