Amos 6:2

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Cross over to Calneh and see; from there go to Hamath the great; then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are you better than these kingdoms? Or is your territory greater than their territory,

Cross References

Genesis 10:10

The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Akkad, and Calneh in the land of Shinar.

2 Samuel 8:9

When King Toi of Hamath heard that David had defeated the whole army of Hadadezer,

1 Kings 8:65

So Solomon held the festival at that time and all Israel with him—a great assembly, people from Lebo-hamath to the Wadi of Egypt—before the Lord our God, seven days.

2 Kings 17:24

The king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim and placed them in the cities of Samaria in place of the people of Israel; they took possession of Samaria and settled in its cities.

2 Kings 17:30

the people of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, the people of Cuth made Nergal, the people of Hamath made Ashima;

2 Kings 18:34

Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?

2 Kings 19:13

Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, the king of Hena, or the king of Ivvah?”

2 Chronicles 26:6

He went out and made war against the Philistines and broke down the wall of Gath and the wall of Jabneh and the wall of Ashdod; he built cities in the territory of Ashdod and elsewhere among the Philistines.

Jeremiah 49:23

Concerning Damascus. Hamath and Arpad are confounded, for they have heard bad news; they melt in fear; they are troubled like the sea that cannot be quiet.

Nahum 3:8

Are you better than Thebes that sat by the Nile, with water around her, her rampart a sea, water her wall?

1 Samuel 17:23

As he talked with them, the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, came up out of the ranks of the Philistines and spoke the same words as before. And David heard him.

1 Samuel 17:4

And there came out from the camp of the Philistines a champion named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was four cubits and a span.

1 Samuel 5:10

So they sent the ark of the God of Israel to Ekron. But when the ark of God came to Ekron, the people of Ekron cried out, “Why have they brought around to us the ark of the God of Israel to kill us and our people?”

1 Samuel 5:8

So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines and said, “What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel?” The inhabitants of Gath replied, “Let the ark of God be moved on to us.” So they moved the ark of the God of Israel to Gath.