The beginning of his kingdom was Bavel, Erekh, Akkad, and Kalneh, in the land of Shin`ar.
Isaiah 10:9 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Isn't Kalno like Karkemish? Isn't Chamat like Arpad? Isn't Shomron 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 Bavel, Erekh, Akkad, and Kalneh, in the land of Shin`ar.
When To`i king of Chamat heard that David had struck all the army of Hadad`ezer,
The king of Ashur listened to him; and the king of Ashur went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried [the people of] it captive to Kir, and killed Retzin.
The king of Ashur brought men from Bavel, and from Kutah, and from Avva, and from Chamat and Sefarvayim, and placed them in the cities of Shomron instead of the children of Yisra'el; and they possessed Shomron, and lived in the cities of it.
Where are the gods of Chamat, and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sefarvayim, of Hena, and `Ivvah? have they delivered Shomron out of my hand?
Who was there among all the gods of those nations which my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of my hand?
After all this, when Yoshiyahu had prepared the temple, Nekho king of Egypt went up to fight against Karkemish by the Perat: and Yoshiyahu went out against him.
The burden of Damascus: *Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it will be a ruinous heap.
The fortress shall cease from Efrayim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria. They will be as the glory of the children of Yisra'el,* says the LORD of Armies.
The highways are desolate. The travelling man ceases. The covenant is broken. He has despised the cities. He doesn't regard man.
Where are the gods of Chamat and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sefarvayim? Have they delivered Shomron from my hand?
Behold, you have heard what the kings of Ashur have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly. Shall you be delivered?
Where is the king of Chamat, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sefarvayim, of Hena, and `Ivvah?'*
For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Retzin; and within sixty-five years Efrayim shall be broken in pieces, so that it shall not be a people;
Of Egypt: concerning the army of Par`oh-Nekho king of Egypt, which was by the river Perat in Karkemish, which Nevukhadnetzar 1 king of Bavel struck in the fourth year of Yehoiakim the son of Yoshiyahu, king of Yehudah.
Of Damascus. Chamat is confounded, and Arpad; for they have heard evil news, they are melted away: there is sorrow on the sea; it can't be quiet.
Chamat, Berotah, Sivrai, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Chamat; the middle Chatzer, which is by the border of Chavran.
Yes, he scoffs at kings, and princes are a derision to him. He laughs at every stronghold, for he builds up an earthen ramp, and takes it.
from Mount Hor you shall mark out to the entrance of Chamat; and the goings out of the border shall be at Tzedad;