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• Yusef Ali suggests that Samariyyu may have been an Egyptian name meaning "stranger, foreigner," or possibly a Hebrew term derived from Shomer ("watchman")
• Thus the distinction between the people of Samaria and the Samaritans is clearly maintained in the Samaritan Chronicle II.
• The Samaritans themselves make a clear distinction between their own ancestors and the inhabitants of Samaria.
• For example, in the part of the Samaritan Chronicle II which corresponds to I Kings 16 of the Hebrew Bible, the biblical account of the founding of Samaria by Omri is followed by a note which explains that the inhabitants of Samaria and its nearby cities were called "Shomronim after the name Shomron"
• the origins of Samaritans is based on II Kings 17. The verse in question is II Kings 17:29 where the Hebrew word shomronim

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