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Is not Hamath like Arpad, and Samaria like Damascus? <a href="/nlt/isaiah/10.htm">New Living Translation</a> We destroyed Calno just as we did Carchemish. Hamath fell before us as Arpad did. And we destroyed Samaria just as we did Damascus. <a href="/esv/isaiah/10.htm">English Standard Version</a> Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus? <a href="/bsb/isaiah/10.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> “Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus? <a href="/kjv/isaiah/10.htm">King James Bible</a> Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus? <a href="/nkjv/isaiah/10.htm">New King James Version</a> Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus? <a href="/nasb_/isaiah/10.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> “Is not Calno like Carchemish, Or Hamath like Arpad, Or Samaria like Damascus? <a href="/nasb/isaiah/10.htm">NASB 1995</a> &#8220Is not Calno like Carchemish, Or Hamath like Arpad, Or Samaria like Damascus? <a href="/nasb77/isaiah/10.htm">NASB 1977 </a> “Is not Calno like Carchemish, Or Hamath like Arpad, Or Samaria like Damascus? <a href="/lsb/isaiah/10.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> Is not Calno like Carchemish, Or Hamath like Arpad, Or Samaria like Damascus? <a href="/amp/isaiah/10.htm">Amplified Bible</a> “Is not Calno [conquered] like Carchemish [on the Euphrates]? Is not Hamath [subdued] like Arpad [her neighbor]? Is not Samaria [in Israel] like Damascus [in Aram]? <a href="/csb/isaiah/10.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> Isn’t Calno like Carchemish? Isn’t Hamath like Arpad? Isn’t Samaria like Damascus? <a href="/hcsb/isaiah/10.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> Isn&#8217t Calno like Carchemish? Isn&#8217t Hamath like Arpad? Isn&#8217t Samaria like Damascus? <a href="/asv/isaiah/10.htm">American Standard Version</a> Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus? <a href="/cev/isaiah/10.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> They have already captured the cities of Calno, Carchemish, Hamath, Arpad, Samaria, and Damascus. <a href="/erv/isaiah/10.htm">English Revised Version</a> Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus? <a href="/gwt/isaiah/10.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> Isn't Calno like Carchemish? Isn't Hamath like Arpad? Isn't Samaria like Damascus?' <a href="/gnt/isaiah/10.htm">Good News Translation</a> I conquered the cities of Calno and Carchemish, the cities of Hamath and Arpad. I conquered Samaria and Damascus. <a href="/isv/isaiah/10.htm">International Standard Version</a> Isn't Calno like Carchemish? Isn't Hamath like Arpad? Isn't Samaria like Damascus? <a href="/msb/isaiah/10.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> ?Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus? <a href="/net/isaiah/10.htm">NET Bible</a> Is not Calneh like Carchemish? Hamath like Arpad? Samaria like Damascus? <a href="/nheb/isaiah/10.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> Isn't Calno like Carchemish? Isn't Hamath like Arpad? Isn't Samaria like Damascus? <a href="/wbt/isaiah/10.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus? <a href="/web/isaiah/10.htm">World English Bible</a> Isn’t Calno like Carchemish? Isn’t Hamath like Arpad? Isn’t Samaria like Damascus?” <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/isaiah/10.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> Is not Calno as Carchemish? Is not Hamath as Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus? <a href="/ylt/isaiah/10.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> Is not Calno as Carchemish? Is not Hamath as Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus? <a href="/slt/isaiah/10.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> Is not as Carchemish, Calno? if not as Arpad, Hamath? if not as Damascus, Shomeron?<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/isaiah/10.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> Are not my princes as so many kings ? is not Calano as Charcamis: and Emath as Arphad? is not Samaria as Damascus? <a href="/cpdv/isaiah/10.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> “Are not my princes like many kings? Is not Calno like Carchemish, and Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus? <a href="/nabre/isaiah/10.htm">New American Bible</a> “Is not Calno like Carchemish, Or Hamath like Arpad, or Samaria like Damascus? <a href="/nrsvce/isaiah/10.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/isaiah/10.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus? <a href="/hpbt/isaiah/10.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> Behold, Kaliu is like Karkemush, and Khamath is like Raphad, and Samaria is like Darmsuq<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/isaiah/10.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> Is not Calno as Carchemish? Is not Hamath as Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus? <a href="/sep/isaiah/10.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> then shall he say, Have I not taken the country above Babylon and Chalanes, where the tower was built? and have I not taken Arabia, and Damascus, and Samaria? <a href="/parallel/isaiah/10-9.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xv9bHT-nr9s?start=2173" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/isaiah/10.htm">Judgment on Assyria</a> …8“Are not all my commanders kings?” he says. 9<a href="/hebrew/3808.htm" title="3808: hă·lō (Adv-NegPrt) -- Not. Or lowi; or loh; a primitive particle; not; by implication, no; often used with other particles.">“Is not</a> <a href="/hebrew/3641.htm" title="3641: kal·nōw (N-proper-fs) -- Calneh -- a place in Babylon. Or Kalneh; also Kalnow; of foreign derivation; Calneh or Calno, a place in the Assyrian empire.">Calno</a> <a href="/hebrew/518.htm" title="518: ’im- (Conj) -- If. A primitive particle; used very widely as demonstrative, lo!"></a> <a href="/hebrew/3751.htm" title="3751: kə·ḵar·kə·mîš (Prep-k:: N-proper-fs) -- A city on the Euphrates. Of foreign derivation; Karkemish, a place in Syria.">like Carchemish?</a> <a href="/hebrew/3808.htm" title="3808: lō (Adv-NegPrt) -- Not. Or lowi; or loh; a primitive particle; not; by implication, no; often used with other particles.">Is not</a> <a href="/hebrew/2574.htm" title="2574: ḥă·māṯ (N-proper-fs) -- A place N. of Damascus. From the same as chowmah; walled; Chamath, a place in Syria.">Hamath</a> <a href="/hebrew/518.htm" title="518: ’im- (Conj) -- If. A primitive particle; used very widely as demonstrative, lo!"></a> <a href="/hebrew/774.htm" title="774: ḵə·’ar·paḏ (Prep-k:: N-proper-fs) -- A city in Aram (Syria). From raphad; spread out; Arpad, a place in Syria.">like Arpad?</a> <a href="/hebrew/3808.htm" title="3808: lō (Adv-NegPrt) -- Not. Or lowi; or loh; a primitive particle; not; by implication, no; often used with other particles.">Is not</a> <a href="/hebrew/8111.htm" title="8111: šō·mə·rō·wn (N-proper-fs) -- Capital of N. kingdom of Isr. From the active participle of shamar; watch-station; Shomeron, a place in Palestine.">Samaria</a> <a href="/hebrew/1834.htm" title="1834: ḵə·ḏam·me·śeq (Prep-k:: N-proper-fs) -- A city in Aram (Syria). Or Duwmeseq; or Darmeseq; of foreign origin; Damascus, a city of Syria.">like Damascus?</a> 10As my hand seized the idolatrous kingdoms whose images surpassed those of Jerusalem and Samaria,…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/2_kings/18-34.htm">2 Kings 18:34-35</a> Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand? / Who among all the gods of these lands has delivered his land from my hand? How then can the LORD deliver Jerusalem from my hand?” <a href="/2_kings/19-12.htm">2 Kings 19:12-13</a> Did the gods of the nations destroyed by my fathers rescue those nations—the gods of Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph, and of the people of Eden in Telassar? / Where are the kings of Hamath, Arpad, Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?’” <a href="/isaiah/36-18.htm">Isaiah 36:18-20</a> Do not let Hezekiah mislead you when he says, ‘The LORD will deliver us.’ Has the god of any nation ever delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria? / Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand? / Who among all the gods of these lands has delivered his land from my hand? How then can the LORD deliver Jerusalem from my hand?” <a href="/isaiah/37-11.htm">Isaiah 37:11-13</a> Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the other countries, devoting them to destruction. Will you then be spared? / Did the gods of the nations destroyed by my fathers rescue those nations—the gods of Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph, and of the people of Eden in Telassar? / Where are the kings of Hamath, Arpad, Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?’” <a href="/jeremiah/49-23.htm">Jeremiah 49:23-27</a> Concerning 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. / Damascus has become feeble; she has turned to flee. Panic has gripped her; anguish and pain have seized her like a woman in labor. / How is the city of praise not forsaken, the town that brings Me joy? ... <a href="/ezekiel/27-8.htm">Ezekiel 27:8-11</a> The men of Sidon and Arvad were your oarsmen. Your men of skill, O Tyre, were there as your captains. / The elders of Gebal were aboard as shipwrights, repairing your leaks. All the ships of the sea and their sailors came alongside to barter for your merchandise. / Men of Persia, Lydia, and Put served as warriors in your army. They hung their shields and helmets on your walls; they gave you splendor. ... <a href="/amos/6-2.htm">Amos 6:2</a> Cross over to Calneh and see; go from there to the great Hamath; then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are you better than these kingdoms? Is their territory larger than yours? <a href="/nahum/3-8.htm">Nahum 3:8-10</a> Are you better than Thebes, stationed by the Nile with water around her, whose rampart was the sea, whose wall was the water? / Cush and Egypt were her boundless strength; Put and Libya were her allies. / Yet she became an exile; she went into captivity. Her infants were dashed to pieces at the head of every street. They cast lots for her dignitaries, and all her nobles were bound in chains. <a href="/zephaniah/2-13.htm">Zephaniah 2:13-15</a> And He will stretch out His hand against the north and destroy Assyria; He will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as a desert. / Herds will lie down in her midst, creatures of every kind. Both the desert owl and screech owl will roost atop her pillars. Their calls will sound from the window, but desolation will lie on the threshold, for He will expose the beams of cedar. / This carefree city that dwells securely, that thinks to herself: “I am it, and there is none besides me,” what a ruin she has become, a resting place for beasts. Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist. <a href="/matthew/11-21.htm">Matthew 11:21-24</a> “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. / But I tell you, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you. / And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted up to heaven? No, you will be brought down to Hades! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it would have remained to this day. ... <a href="/luke/10-13.htm">Luke 10:13-15</a> Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. / But it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you. / And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted up to heaven? No, you will be brought down to Hades! <a href="/acts/13-40.htm">Acts 13:40-41</a> Watch out, then, that what was spoken by the prophets does not happen to you: / ‘Look, you scoffers, wonder and perish! For I am doing a work in your days that you would never believe, even if someone told you.’” <a href="/romans/9-17.htm">Romans 9:17-18</a> For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power in you, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth.” / Therefore God has mercy on whom He wants to have mercy, and He hardens whom He wants to harden. <a href="/romans/11-22.htm">Romans 11:22</a> Take notice, therefore, of the kindness and severity of God: severity to those who fell, but kindness to you, if you continue in His kindness. Otherwise you also will be cut off. <a href="/1_corinthians/10-11.htm">1 Corinthians 10:11</a> Now these things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?Calno<a href="/amos/6-1.htm">Amos 6:1,2</a> Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came! … Calneh.<a href="/2_chronicles/35-20.htm">2 Chronicles 35:20</a> After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Carchemish by Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him.<a href="/jeremiah/46-2.htm">Jeremiah 46:2</a> Against Egypt, against the army of Pharaohnecho king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah.Hamath<a href="/isaiah/36-19.htm">Isaiah 36:19</a> Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?<a href="/isaiah/37-13.htm">Isaiah 37:13</a> Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?<a href="/2_samuel/8-9.htm">2 Samuel 8:9</a> When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had smitten all the host of Hadadezer,Samaria<a href="/isaiah/7-8.htm">Isaiah 7:8</a> For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.<a href="/isaiah/17-3.htm">Isaiah 17:3</a> The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts.<a href="/2_kings/16-9.htm">2 Kings 16:9</a> And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him: for the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried the people of it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin.<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/2_kings/19-13.htm">Arpad</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/35-20.htm">Carchemish</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/35-20.htm">Car'chemish</a> <a href="/isaiah/8-4.htm">Damascus</a> <a href="/esther/2-11.htm">Fared</a> <a href="/isaiah/6-5.htm">Fate</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/8-4.htm">Hamath</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/35-20.htm">Karkemish</a> <a href="/isaiah/9-9.htm">Samaria</a> <a href="/isaiah/9-9.htm">Sama'ria</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/isaiah/36-19.htm">Arpad</a> <a href="/jeremiah/46-2.htm">Carchemish</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/35-20.htm">Car'chemish</a> <a href="/isaiah/17-1.htm">Damascus</a> <a href="/haggai/1-5.htm">Fared</a> <a href="/isaiah/14-16.htm">Fate</a> <a href="/isaiah/11-11.htm">Hamath</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/35-20.htm">Karkemish</a> <a href="/isaiah/10-10.htm">Samaria</a> <a href="/isaiah/10-10.htm">Sama'ria</a><div class="vheading2">Isaiah 10</div>1. <a href="/isaiah/10-1.htm">The woe of tyrants</a> 5. <a href="/isaiah/10-5.htm">Assyria, the rod of hypocrites, for its pride shall be broken</a> 20. <a href="/isaiah/10-20.htm">A remnant of Israel shall be saved</a> 23. <a href="/isaiah/10-23.htm">Judah is comforted with promise of deliverance from Assyria</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/isaiah/10.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/isaiah/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/isaiah/10.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div>Is not Calno like Carchemish? Calno and Carchemish were significant cities in the ancient Near East. Calno, also known as Calneh, was a city in northern Mesopotamia, often associated with the Assyrian Empire. Carchemish was a major Hittite city located on the Euphrates River, known for its strategic military importance. The rhetorical question implies that just as Calno fell to Assyrian power, so did Carchemish. This reflects the Assyrian king's arrogance, believing that all cities, regardless of their strength or history, are equally conquerable. Historically, Carchemish was a site of significant battles, including the famous battle in 605 BC where Nebuchadnezzar defeated the Egyptians. This comparison underscores the Assyrian king's confidence in his military campaigns.Is not Hamath like Arpad? Hamath and Arpad were cities in Syria. Hamath was a prominent city-state located on the Orontes River, known for its wealth and influence. Arpad was a smaller city north of Aleppo, often mentioned in Assyrian records as a rebellious city that was eventually subdued. The comparison suggests that just as Arpad was conquered, so too was Hamath, despite its greater size and strength. This reflects the Assyrian king's view that no city, regardless of its defenses or alliances, could withstand his might. The historical context shows that both cities fell to Assyrian expansion, illustrating the empire's dominance in the region during the 8th century BC.Is not Samaria like Damascus? Samaria was the capital of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, while Damascus was the capital of Aram (Syria). Both cities were significant political and cultural centers in the region. The comparison indicates that just as Damascus was conquered by the Assyrians, so too would Samaria fall. This reflects the historical reality of the Assyrian conquest of Samaria in 722 BC, leading to the exile of the Israelites. Theologically, this serves as a warning of judgment against Israel for its idolatry and disobedience. The fall of these cities is often seen as a fulfillment of prophetic warnings, emphasizing the theme of divine justice and the consequences of turning away from God.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/c/calno.htm">Calno</a> An ancient city, possibly identified with Calneh in <a href="/genesis/10-10.htm">Genesis 10:10</a>, known for its wealth and significance in the Assyrian empire. 2. <a href="/topical/c/carchemish.htm">Carchemish</a> A major city on the Euphrates River, known for its strategic importance and as a site of significant battles. 3. <a href="/topical/h/hamath.htm">Hamath</a> A city in Syria, often mentioned in the context of Assyrian conquests. 4. <a href="/topical/a/arpad.htm">Arpad</a> A city in northern Syria, frequently mentioned in the Bible as a target of Assyrian campaigns. 5. <a href="/topical/s/samaria.htm">Samaria</a> The capital of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, known for its idolatry and eventual conquest by the Assyrians. 6. <a href="/topical/d/damascus.htm">Damascus</a> The capital of Aram (Syria), a city with a long history of conflict with Israel.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/t/the_folly_of_pride.htm">The Folly of Pride</a> The Assyrian king's comparison of conquered cities reflects human arrogance. We must guard against pride, recognizing that all power and success come from God. <a href="/topical/t/the_consequences_of_idolatry.htm">The Consequences of Idolatry</a> Samaria's comparison to other fallen cities serves as a warning against idolatry and turning away from God. We should examine our lives for anything that takes precedence over our relationship with God. <a href="/topical/g/god's_sovereignty_over_nations.htm">God's Sovereignty Over Nations</a> The passage underscores God's control over the rise and fall of nations. We can trust in His ultimate plan and justice, even when worldly powers seem dominant. <a href="/topical/t/the_danger_of_complacency.htm">The Danger of Complacency</a> The cities mentioned were once strong and secure but fell due to complacency and sin. We must remain vigilant in our faith and obedience to God. <a href="/topical/h/hope_in_god's_deliverance.htm">Hope in God's Deliverance</a> Despite the Assyrian threat, God preserved a remnant of His people. This reminds us of His faithfulness and the hope we have in His promises.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_isaiah_10.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Isaiah 10</a> <a href="/q/is_there_evidence_for_isaiah_10_7-11.htm">Isaiah 10:7-11: Is there sufficient historical or archaeological evidence supporting the extensive conquests described here?</a> <a href="/q/peace_or_division__jesus'_intent.htm">Did Jesus come to bring peace or division? (Luke 2:14 vs. Matthew 10:34)</a> <a href="/q/how_to_reconcile_isaiah_59_9-10_with_god's_guidance.htm">How do we reconcile Isaiah 59:9-10, describing spiritual and moral blindness, with other biblical passages that suggest God provides ongoing guidance to His people?</a> <a href="/q/why_does_jesus_say_he_brings_a_sword.htm">If Jesus is the Prince of Peace, why does He say, 'I have not come to bring peace, but a sword' (Matthew 10:34)?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/isaiah/10.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(9) Is not Calno as Carchemish?--The six names obviously pointed to more recent conquests in which Sargon and his predecessors had exulted. One after another they had fallen. Could Judah hope to escape? (1) Calno, the Calneh of <a href="/genesis/10-10.htm" title="And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.">Genesis 10:10</a>, <a href="/amos/6-2.htm" title="Pass you to Calneh, and see; and from there go you to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: be they better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border?">Amos 6:2</a>. That prophet had held up its fate in vain as a warning to Samaria. It has been identified by Kay with Ctesiphon on the east bank of the Tigris, by Lenormant (Manual, i. 80) with Ur of the Chaldees and with the ruins known now as the Mugheir, by Rawlinson (Five Great Monarchies, i. 20) with Nipur. The Assyrian form, Kil-Anu, means the "house" or "temple" of Anu, an Assyrian deity). Sennacherib (Lenormant i. 398), speaks of having reconquered it after a Chaldean revolt, and sold its inhabitants as slaves. The LXX. version, which instead of naming Carchemish, gives "Calane, where the tower was built," seems to imply a tradition identifying that city with the Tower of Babel of <a href="/genesis/11-4.htm" title="And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach to heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the face of the whole earth.">Genesis 11:4</a>. (2) Carchemish. Few cities of the ancient world occupied a more prominent position than this. Its name has been explained as meaning the Tower of Chemosh, and so bears witness to the widespread cultus of the deity whom we meet with in Biblical history as the "abomination of the Moabites" (<a href="/1_kings/11-7.htm" title="Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.">1Kings 11:7</a>). It has been commonly identified with the Circesium of Greek historians, but the inscriptions found by Mr. George Smith at Tarabolos (the Hierapolis of the Greeks) on the banks of the Euphrates, at its junction with the Kyabur, prove that this is the true representative of the great commercial city of the old Hittite kings (Times, Aug. 23, 1876). Its importance is shown by the frequent occurrence of the name, in its Egyptian form of Karakumusha, in the record of Egyptian kings. Thothmes I. (circa B.C. 1600) conquered it, and, as a result of his campaign, strengthened the forces of Egypt with the chariots and horses for which it was afterwards conspicuous (Lenormant, Manual, 1 p. 229). Thothmes III. built a fortress there to guard the passage of the Euphrates (ibid. 1 p. 232), the ruins of which, with Egyptian inscriptions and works of Egyptian manufacture, have recently been found there (ibid. 1 p.,263). It revolted against Ramses II. (the Sesostris of the Greeks), with the Hittites and Ph?nicians, and other nations, but was subdued by him in the expedition in which the victorious issue is recorded on the monument on the Nahr-el-Kelb near Beyr-t. Shalmaneser IV. (contemporary with Ahab) records that he demolished and burnt it (ibid. 1 p. 380). Tiglath-pileser II., the king to whom Ahaz paid tribute, received tribute from its king in B.C. 742 (ibid. 1 p. 389). The last two victories are probably referred to in the boast now before us. At a later period it was conspicuous for the great defeat of Pharaoh Necho's army by Nebuchadnezzar (see notes on <a href="/jeremiah/46-2.htm" title="Against Egypt, against the army of Pharaohnecho king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah.">Jeremiah 46:2</a>). Its commercial importance is indicated by the fact that the "mana (Heb., manah) of Carchemish" appears in numerous cuneiform inscriptions as the standard weight of the time, just as that of Troyes, in the commerce of the Middle Ages, is shown by the survival of the name in the "Troy weight" of our arithmetic books (Records of the Past, vii. 114).Is not Hamath as Arpad?--(1) Hamath on the Orontes, the capital of an Aramaean kingdom, was prominent in the history of the East. Under its kings Toi and Joram it paid tribute to David (<a href="/context/2_samuel/8-9.htm" title="When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had smitten all the host of Hadadezer,">2Samuel 8:9-10</a>). It fell under the power of Jeroboam II. of Israel (<a href="/2_kings/14-25.htm" title="He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath to the sea of the plain, according to the word of the LORD God of Israel, which he spoke by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, which was of Gathhepher.">2Kings 14:25</a>). In conjunction with Damascus it revolted against Shalmaneser IV., and was subdued by him (Lenormant's Manual, 1 p. 380). Its king was first among the tributary princes under Tiglath-pileser II. after having joined with Pekah and Rezin in their revolt (ibid. 1 p. 389). Lastly, to come to the date of the present prophecy, it again revolted, in conjunction, as before, with Damascus and Samaria, and was again subdued by Sargon (ibid. 1 p. 393). (2) Of the early history of Arpad we know less, but it appears as having sustained a three years' siege from the forces of Tiglath-pileser II. It joined Hamath in its revolt against Sargon, and was again, as this verse implies, subdued by him. It is always united in the Old Testament with Hamath (<a href="/isaiah/36-19.htm" title="Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?">Isaiah 36:19</a>; <a href="/isaiah/37-13.htm" title="Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?">Isaiah 37:13</a>). Under the name of Erfad it is still traceable about nine miles from Aleppo (Lenormant, 1 pp. 389, 393). . . . <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/isaiah/10.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 9. - Is not Calno as Carehemish? A further proof of superiority, and ground of confidence, lay in the further fact, that the strongest cities had, one and all, succumbed to the Assyrian arms, and been laid in ruins to punish them for offering resistance. Six such cities are mentioned - Calneh, probably Niffer, in Lower Mesopotamia; Carchemish, on the right bank of the Euphrates in Lat. 36° 30' nearly; Hamath, the "great Hamath" of Amos (<a href="/amos/6-2.htm">Amos 6:2</a>), in Coelesyria on the routes; Arpad, perhaps Tel-Erfad, near Aleppo; Damascus, and Samaria. Calneh was one of the cities of Nimrod (<a href="/genesis/10-10.htm">Genesis 10:10</a>), and, according to the LXX., was "the place where the tower was built." It may have been taken by Tiglath-Pileser in one of his expeditious into Babylonia. Amos (<a href="/amos/6-2.htm">Amos 6:2</a>) speaks of it as desolate in his day. Carchemish (Assyrian Gargamis) was a chief city of the Hittites, and has been called "their northern capital." Long confounded by geographers with Circesium at the junction of the Khabour with the Euphrates, it has recently been proved to have occupied a far more northern position, and is now generally identified with the ruins discovered by Mr. George Smith at Jerabis or Jerabhs. It was conquered by Sargon in B.C. 717, when "its people were led captive, and scattered over the Assyrian empire, while Assyrian colonists were brought to people the city in their place; Carchemish being formally annexed to Assyria, and placed under an Assyrian governor" (G. Smith, 'Assyria,' p. 97). Hamath was originally a Canaanite city (<a href="/genesis/10-18.htm">Genesis 10:18</a>). By the time of David it had become the scat of an independent monarchy (<a href="/2_samuel/8-9.htm">2 Samuel 8:9, 10</a>), and so continued until its reduction by the Assyrians. We find it leagued with the Hittites, the Syrians of Damascus, and the Israelites against Assyria about B.C. 850 ('Ancient Monarchies,' vol. 2. pp. 361-363). About B.C. 720 it was taken by Sargon, who beheaded its king, and probably reduced it to ruins (ibid., p. 411; comp. <a href="/amos/6-2.htm">Amos 6:2</a>). The name remains in the modern Hamah, where many curious inscriptions have been recently dug up. Arpad was attacked by Tiglath-Pileser in the early part of his reign, and reduced to subjection. It revolted in conjunction with Hamath from Sargon, and was severely punished ('Ancient Monarchies,' l.s.c.). Is not Samaria as Damascus? This mention of Samaria among the subjugated and ruined cities may undoubtedly be prophetic; but the connection with Carchemish, Hamath, and Arpad all of them towns reduced by Sargon within the years B.C. 720-717 - points rather to the verse being historical, and would seem to indicate that the date of the entire prophecy - vers. 5-19 - is subsequent to the capture of the cities, and so not earlier than B.C. 716. <a href="/commentaries/isaiah/10-9.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>“Is not הֲלֹ֥א (hă·lō) Adverb - Negative particle <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3808.htm">Strong's 3808: </a> Not, no Calno כַּלְנ֑וֹ (kal·nōw) Noun - proper - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3641.htm">Strong's 3641: </a> Calneh -- a place in Babylon like Carchemish? כְּכַרְכְּמִ֖ישׁ (kə·ḵar·kə·mîš) Preposition-k | Noun - proper - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3751.htm">Strong's 3751: </a> Carchemish -- a city on the Euphrates Is not לֹ֤א (lō) Adverb - Negative particle <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3808.htm">Strong's 3808: </a> Not, no Hamath חֲמָ֔ת (ḥă·māṯ) Noun - proper - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2574.htm">Strong's 2574: </a> Hamath -- a place North of Damascus like Arpad? כְאַרְפַּד֙ (ḵə·’ar·paḏ) Preposition-k | Noun - proper - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_774.htm">Strong's 774: </a> Arpad -- a city in Aram (Syria) Is not לֹ֥א (lō) Adverb - Negative particle <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3808.htm">Strong's 3808: </a> Not, no Samaria שֹׁמְרֽוֹן׃ (šō·mə·rō·wn) Noun - proper - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8111.htm">Strong's 8111: </a> Samaria -- capital of northern kingdom of Israel like Damascus? כְדַמֶּ֖שֶׂק (ḵə·ḏam·me·śeq) Preposition-k | Noun - proper - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1834.htm">Strong's 1834: </a> Damascus -- a city in Aram (Syria) <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/isaiah/10-9.htm">Isaiah 10:9 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/isaiah/10-9.htm">Isaiah 10:9 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/isaiah/10-9.htm">Isaiah 10:9 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/isaiah/10-9.htm">Isaiah 10:9 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/isaiah/10-9.htm">Isaiah 10:9 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/isaiah/10-9.htm">Isaiah 10:9 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/isaiah/10-9.htm">Isaiah 10:9 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/isaiah/10-9.htm">Isaiah 10:9 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/isaiah/10-9.htm">Isaiah 10:9 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/isaiah/10-9.htm">Isaiah 10:9 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/isaiah/10-9.htm">OT Prophets: Isaiah 10:9 Isn't Calno like Carchemish? 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