O Samaria] Namely O ye ten Tribes whose chiefe citie is Samaria; your idolatry with your calves at Bethel and Dan, 1 King. 12. 28, 29. is the chiefe cause of your dispersion out of your own countrey. Or your calfe hath been carried a farre of, namely, into Assyria; as the idols of the nations overcome, wre carried away captive in triumph by the conquerors. See Chap. 10 6.
innocencie] That is, upright judgement and godly life.