The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Isaiah 10:9 - English Standard Version 2016 Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not 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? |
The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had defeated the whole army of Hadadezer,
And the king of Assyria listened to him. The king of Assyria marched up against Damascus and took it, carrying its people captive to Kir, and he killed Rezin.
And the king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the people of Israel. And they 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 delivered Samaria out of my hand?
Who among all the gods of those nations that my fathers devoted to destruction was able to deliver his people from my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you from my hand?
After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Neco king of Egypt went up to fight at Carchemish on the Euphrates, and Josiah went out to meet him.
An oracle concerning Damascus. Behold, Damascus will cease to be a city and will become a heap of ruins.
The fortress will disappear from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus; and the remnant of Syria will be like the glory of the children of Israel, declares the Lord of hosts.
The highways lie waste; the traveler ceases. Covenants are broken; cities are despised; there is no regard for man.
Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?
Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, devoting them to destruction. And shall you be delivered?
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?’”
For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. And within sixty-five years Ephraim will be shattered from being a people.
About Egypt. Concerning the army of Pharaoh Neco, king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates at Carchemish and which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:
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.
Berothah, Sibraim (which lies on the border between Damascus and Hamath), as far as Hazer-hatticon, which is on the border of Hauran.
At kings they scoff, and at rulers they laugh. They laugh at every fortress, for they pile up earth and take it.
From Mount Hor you shall draw a line to Lebo-hamath, and the limit of the border shall be at Zedad.