Aruadi, Zemari, & Harmati. And afterward sprange the kinreds of the Cananites.
The borders of Hemath shalbe hard therby, Tyrus also and Sidon, for they are verye wise.
They of Sydon and Arnah were thy mariners, and the wisest in Tyre were thy shipmaysters.
Is not Calno as easye to winne, as Charchamis? Is it harder to conquere Antiochia then Arphad? Or is it lyghter to ouercome Damascus then Samaria?
And Abiah stode vp vpon Zemaraim an hyl in mount Ephraim, & sayd: heare me thou Ieroboam & all Israel.
The men of Babilon made Socoth, Benoth. The men of Cuth made Nergell. They of Hemath made Asima.
And the kynge of Assyrya brought from Babylon & from Cutha, & from Aua & from Hemath and from Sepharuaim, and put them in the cyties of Samaria in steade of the chyldren of Israel. And they possessed Samaria & dwelte in the cytyes thereof.
When Thoi Kyng of Hemath had hearde how Dauid had discomforted all the hoste of Adadezer,
Betharabah, Zamarim, and Bethel,
And from mount Hor, ye shal compasse and go vnto Hemath, and the ende of the coste shalbe at Zedada,
Him, Arki. Sini,
And the costes of the Cananites were from Sydon tyll thou come to Gerara & to Asa, & tyl thou come to Sodoma, Gomorra, Adama, Zeboim, euen vnto Lasa.
And their stronge cyties are Zidim, Ber, Hamath, Racath and Cenereth,
Aruadi, Zamari and Hemathi.