“Is not Calno like Carchemish, Or Hamath like Arpad, Or 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?
- BSB “Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?
- NKJV Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not 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.
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- 2 Chr 35:20After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Neco king of Egypt went up to fight against Carchemish by the Euphrates, and Josiah went out against him.
- 2 Kgs 16:9The king of Assyria listened to him; and the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried its people captive to Kir, and killed Rezin.
- Gen 10:10The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
- Jer 46:2Of Egypt: concerning the army of Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck 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 49:23Of Damascus: “Hamath 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.
- Isa 37:13Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?’”
- Isa 7:8For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within sixty-five years Ephraim shall be broken in pieces, so that it shall not be a people;
- 2 Sam 8:9When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had struck all the army of Hadadezer,
- 2 Kgs 17:5–6Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
- Amos 6:1–2Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and to those who are secure on the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel come!
- 2 Kgs 18:9–10In the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.
- Isa 17:3The fortress shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria. They will be as the glory of the children of Israel,” says Yahweh of Armies.
- 2 Kgs 17:24The king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, from Cuthah, from Avva, and from Hamath and Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel; and they possessed Samaria, and lived in its cities.
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