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Omri buys the hill of Samaria and builds his capital Placed by sequence — no public-domain source dates this
True span 4004 BC – AD 100
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How we know the date ISBE gives Omri's reign as a span, so the building is placed inside it rather than on one year. ISBE's article “Omri” (1915) gives a range, 887 BC to 876 BC. None of them fixes a single year, so the event is placed by its order in the narrative within the range quoted.
Written in-house from the sources below · every year is a quotation
The sources, word for word “Omri reigned 12 years, circa 887-876 BC.”
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · OMRI · gives no year Sources