Concerning Dammesek. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.
But the Chaldeans' army pursued after them, and overtook TZidkiyah-yahu in the plains of Yericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Bavel to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgment upon him.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that YY shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Ashur, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
And the king of Ashur brought men from Bavel, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Shomron instead of the children of Yisrael: and they possessed Shomron, and dwelt in the cities thereof.