Isaiah 10:9
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9 Is not Calno like Carchemish?
Is not Hamath like Arpad?
Is not Samaria like Damascus?(A)
2 Chronicles 35:20
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Defeat by Pharaoh Neco and Death of Josiah
20 After all this, when Josiah had set the temple in order, King Neco of Egypt went up to fight at Carchemish on the Euphrates, and Josiah went out against him.(A)
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2 Kings 16:9
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9 The king of Assyria listened to him; the king of Assyria marched up against Damascus and took it, carrying its people captive to Kir; then he killed Rezin.(A)
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Jeremiah 46:2
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2 Concerning Egypt, about the army of Pharaoh Neco, king of Egypt, which was by the River Euphrates at Carchemish and which King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon defeated in the fourth year of King Jehoiakim son of Josiah of Judah:(A)
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Genesis 10:10
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10 The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Akkad, and Calneh in the land of Shinar.(A)
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Amos 6:1-2
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Complacent Self-Indulgence Will Be Punished
6 Woe to those who are at ease in Zion
and for those who feel secure on Mount Samaria,
the notables of the first of the nations,
to whom the house of Israel resorts!(A)
2 Cross over to Calneh and see;
from there go to Hamath the great;
then go down to Gath of the Philistines.
Are you better[a] than these kingdoms?
Or is your[b] territory greater than their[c] territory,(B)
Jeremiah 49:23
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Judgment on Damascus
23 Concerning Damascus.
Hamath and Arpad are confounded,
for they have heard bad news;
they melt in fear; they are troubled like the sea[a]
that cannot be quiet.(A)
Footnotes
- 49.23 Cn: Heb there is trouble in the sea
Isaiah 37:13
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13 Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of Laar, Sepharvaim, Hena, or Ivvah?”
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Isaiah 36:19
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19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?(A)
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