Isaiah 10:9

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Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? And is not Samaria like Damascus?

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  • 2 Kgs 16:9 : 9 The king of Assyria complied with him, marched up to Damascus, seized it, exiled its people to Kir, and killed Rezin.
  • 2 Chr 35:20 : 20 After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Pharaoh Neco, king of Egypt, marched up to fight at Carchemish on the Euphrates. Josiah went out to meet him.
  • Gen 10:10 : 10 The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Akkad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
  • Jer 46:2 : 2 Concerning Egypt: about the army of Pharaoh Neco, king of Egypt, which was at the Euphrates River in Carchemish and was defeated by Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah.
  • Jer 49:23 : 23 Concerning Damascus: 'Hamath and Arpad are dismayed, for they have heard bad news. They melt in fear; their hearts are troubled, restless like the sea that cannot be calmed.'
  • Amos 6:1-2 : 1 Woe to those who are complacent in Zion and trust in Mount Samaria, notable men among the foremost of nations, to whom the house of Israel comes. 2 Go to Calneh and look, then go from there to great Hamath, and go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are they better than these kingdoms? Is their territory greater than yours?
  • 2 Sam 8:9 : 9 When Toi, king of Hamath, heard that David had defeated the entire army of Hadadezer,
  • Isa 7:8 : 8 For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. Within sixty-five years Ephraim will be too shattered to be a people.
  • Isa 17:3 : 3 The fortress will disappear from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus; the remnant of Aram will be like the glory of the Israelites, declares the LORD of Hosts.
  • Isa 36:19 : 19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?
  • Isa 37:13 : 13 Where now is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, or of Hena and Ivvah?
  • 2 Kgs 17:5-6 : 5 Then the king of Assyria invaded the whole land, went up to Samaria, and besieged it for three years. 6 In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and deported the Israelites to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, along the Habor River, and in the cities of Media.
  • 2 Kgs 17:24 : 24 The king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim, and settled them in the towns of Samaria in place of the Israelites. They took possession of Samaria and lived in its towns.
  • 2 Kgs 18:9-9 : 9 In the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah, king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria marched against Samaria and besieged it. 10 At the end of three years, they captured it. So in the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.

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