Arvadites, Zemarites and Hamathites. Later the Canaanite clans scattered
Hivites, Arkites, Sinites,
and the borders of Canaan reached from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboyim, as far as Lasha.
When Tou king of Hamath heard that David had defeated the entire army of Hadadezer,
The king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Kuthah, Avva, Hamath and Sepharvaim and settled them in the towns of Samaria to replace the Israelites. They took over Samaria and lived in its towns.
The people from Babylon made Sukkoth Benoth, those from Kuthah made Nergal, and those from Hamath made Ashima;
Arvadites, Zemarites and Hamathites.
Abijah stood on Mount Zemaraim, in the hill country of Ephraim, and said, “Jeroboam and all Israel, listen to me!
‘Has not Kalno fared like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad, and Samaria like Damascus?
Men of Sidon and Arvad were your oarsmen; your skilled men, Tyre, were aboard as your sailors.
and on Hamath too, which borders on it, and on Tyre and Sidon, though they are very skillful.
and from Mount Hor to Lebo Hamath. Then the boundary will go to Zedad,
Beth Arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel,
The fortified towns were Ziddim, Zer, Hammath, Rakkath, Kinnereth,