13:32 for the prophecy he announced with the Lord’s authority67 against the altar in Bethel68 and against all the temples on the high places in the cities of the north69 will certainly be fulfilled.”
tnHeb “Samaria.” The name of Israel’s capital city here stands for the northern kingdom as a whole. Actually Samaria was not built and named until several years after this (see 1 Kgs 16:24), so it is likely that the author of Kings, writing at a later time, is here adapting the old prophet’s original statement.