His kingdom started with Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. ,
Isaiah 10:9 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Isn’t Calno like Carchemish? Isn’t Hamath like Arpad? Isn’t Samaria like Damascus? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Is not Calno [of Babylonia conquered] like Carchemish [on the Euphrates]? Is not Hamath [in Upper Syria] like Arpad [her neighbor]? Is not Samaria [in Israel] like Damascus [in Syria]? [Have any of these cities been able to resist Assyria? Not one!] American Standard Version (1901) Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus? Common English Bible Isn’t Calno like Carchemish? Isn’t Hamath like Arpad? Isn’t Samaria like Damascus? Catholic Public Domain Version "Are not my princes like many kings? Is not Calno like Carchemish, and Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Are not my princes as so many kings? Is not Calano as Charcamis, and Emath as Arphad? Is not Samaria as Damascus? |
His kingdom started with Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. ,
When King Toi of Hamath heard that David had defeated the entire army of Hadadezer,
So the king of Assyria listened to him and marched up to Damascus and captured it. He deported its people to Kir but put Rezin to death.
Then the king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim and settled them in place of the Israelites in the cities of Samaria. The settlers took possession of Samaria and lived in its cities.
Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? Have they rescued Samaria from my power?
Who among all the gods of these nations that my predecessors completely destroyed was able to rescue his people from my power, that your God should be able to deliver you from my power?
After all this that Josiah had prepared for the temple, King Neco of Egypt marched up to fight at Carchemish by the Euphrates, and Josiah went out to confront him.
A pronouncement concerning Damascus: Look, Damascus is no longer a city. It has become a ruined heap.
The fortress disappears from Ephraim, and a kingdom from Damascus. The remnant of Aram will be like the splendour of the Israelites. This is the declaration of the Lord of Armies.
The roads are deserted; travel has ceased. An agreement has been broken, cities despised, and human life disregarded.
Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they rescued Samaria from my power?
Look, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the countries: they completely destroyed them. Will you be rescued?
Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, or Ivvah? ” ’
The chief city of Aram is Damascus, the chief of Damascus is Rezin (within sixty-five years Ephraim will be too shattered to be a people),
About Egypt and the army of Pharaoh Neco, Egypt’s king, which was defeated at Carchemish on the River Euphrates by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon in the fourth year of Judah’s King Jehoiakim son of Josiah:
About Damascus: Hamath and Arpad are put to shame, for they have heard a bad report and are agitated, like the anxious sea that cannot be calmed.
Berothah, and Sibraim (which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath), as far as Hazer-hatticon, which is on the border of Hauran.
They mock kings, and rulers are a joke to them. They laugh at every fortress and build siege ramps to capture it.
from Mount Hor draw a line to the entrance of Hamath, , and the border will reach Zedad.