“Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?
Parallel translations
- WEB Isn’t Calno like Carchemish? Isn’t Hamath like Arpad? Isn’t Samaria like Damascus?”
- KJV Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?
- NKJV Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?
- NASB “Is not Calno like Carchemish, Or Hamath like Arpad, Or Samaria like Damascus?
- NLT We destroyed Calno just as we did Carchemish. Hamath fell before us as Arpad did. And we destroyed Samaria just as we did Damascus.
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Quick answer
The king boasts of conquered cities, assuming Jerusalem will fall as easily as the rest.
Overview
He lists captured cities, Calno, Carchemish, Hamath, Arpad, Samaria, Damascus, as proof of unstoppable might. His logic is that no city, including Jerusalem, can withstand him. The boast reveals the pride that sets Assyria up for God's humbling judgment.
Cross-references & the web
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- 2 Chr 35:20After all this, when Josiah had set the temple in order, Neco king of Egypt marched up to fight at Carchemish by the Euphrates, and Josiah went out to confront him.
- 2 Kgs 16:9So the king of Assyria responded to him, marched up to Damascus, and captured it. He took its people to Kir as captives and put Rezin to death.
- Gen 10:10His kingdom began in Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
- Jer 46:2concerning Egypt and the army of Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt, which was defeated at Carchemish on the Euphrates River by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah:
- Isa 36:19Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?
- Jer 49:23Concerning Damascus: “Hamath and Arpad are put to shame, for they have heard a bad report; they are agitated like the sea; their anxiety cannot be calmed.
- Isa 37:13Where are the kings of Hamath, Arpad, Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?’”
- Isa 7:8For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. Within sixty-five years Ephraim will be shattered as a people.
- 2 Sam 8:9When King Toi of Hamath heard that David had defeated the entire army of Hadadezer,
- 2 Kgs 17:5–6Then the king of Assyria invaded the whole land, marched up to Samaria, and besieged it for three years.
- Amos 6:1–2Woe to those at ease in Zion and those secure on Mount Samaria, the distinguished ones of the foremost nation, to whom the house of Israel comes.
- 2 Kgs 18:9–10In the fourth year of Hezekiah’s reign, which was the seventh year of the reign of Hoshea son of Elah over Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria marched against Samaria and besieged it.
- Isa 17:3The fortress will disappear from Ephraim, and the sovereignty from Damascus. The remnant of Aram will be like the splendor of the Israelites,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
- 2 Kgs 17:24Then the king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim and settled them in the towns of Samaria to replace the Israelites. They took possession of Samaria and lived in its towns.
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