Arvadites, Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Later the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.
Also Hamath borders it, even Tyre and Sidon, cities that are very wise.
The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your mariners; your wise men, O Tyre, were aboard; they were your pilots.
Is not Kalno as Carchemish? Is not Hamath as Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus?
Then Abijah went up to Mount Zemaraim that is in the hills of Ephraim, and he said, “Listen to me, Jeroboam and all Israel!
The men of Babylon made Sukkoth Benoth, the men of Kuthah made Nergal, the men of Hamath made Ashima,
Then the king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Kuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim and put them in the cities of Samaria instead of the Israelites. They possessed Samaria and lived in its cities.
When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had defeated the entire army of Hadadezer,
Beth-arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel,
from Mount Hor you will mark a line of your border to Lebo Hamath, and the limits of the border will be to Zedad.
Hivites, Arkites, Sinites,
The border of the Canaanites was from Sidon toward Gerar to Gaza, and then to Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboyim, as far as Lasha.
Their fortified cities were Ziddim, Zer, Hammath, Rakkath, Kinnereth,
the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites.