King Saul pronounces a ban on eating & his son Jonathan violates the cherem to eat honey / Yehonosson is spared from punishment & a Korban Olah is brought instead / A king's right to execute & pardon / The Assyrians import Kusim (Samaritans) into the Shechem area / The Kusim bring Mesopotamian idolatry to the Holy Land & are punished with lions / Two Jewish priests teach the Samaritans Torah / The Bad Samaritans antagonize the Jews / A cherem is imposed on eating kusi bread & they are banned from converting to Judaism / Later decrees against the kutim
