Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?
Parallel translations
- WEB Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?
- KJV Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?
- NKJV Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Indeed, have they delivered Samaria from my hand?
- NASB Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? And when have they saved Samaria from my hand?
- NLT What happened to the gods of Hamath and Arpad? And what about the gods of Sepharvaim? Did any god rescue Samaria from my power?
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Quick answer
He lists conquered nations whose gods failed, asking where their help was.
Overview
Citing Hamath, Arpad, Sepharvaim, and Samaria, the Rabshakeh boasts that their gods could not save them from Assyria. The list is meant to prove resistance is hopeless. But by including the northern kingdom's fall, he ignores that Israel fell under God's own judgment, not because the Lord was weak, a distinction that exposes his flawed reasoning.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 8
- 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 10:9–11“Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?
- 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.
- 2 Sam 8:9When King Toi of Hamath heard that David had defeated the entire army of Hadadezer,
- Isa 37:11–13Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the other countries, devoting them to destruction. Will you then be spared?
- 2 Kgs 17:5–7Then the king of Assyria invaded the whole land, marched up to Samaria, and besieged it for three years.
- Num 34:8and from Mount Hor to Lebo-hamath, then extend to Zedad,
- 2 Kgs 18:10–12And at the end of three years, the Assyrians captured it. So Samaria was captured in the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel.
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