Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?
Carchemish
General references
Bible References
Carchemish
2 Chronicles 35:20
After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Neco king of Egypt came up to make war at Carchemish on the Euphrates, and Josiah went out to meet him.
Jeremiah 46:2
Concerning Egypt, against the army of Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates at Carchemish, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated [decisively] in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah:
Samaria
Isaiah 7:8
For the head (capital) of Aram is Damascus and the head of Damascus is [King] Rezin (now within sixty-five years Ephraim will be broken to pieces and will no longer be a people).
Isaiah 17:3
“The fortified city will disappear from Ephraim,
And the kingdom from Damascus
And the remnant of Aram (Syria);
They will be like the [departed] glory of [her ally] the children of Israel,”
Declares the Lord of hosts.
“The fortified city will disappear from Ephraim,
And the kingdom from Damascus
And the remnant of Aram (Syria);
They will be like the [departed] glory of [her ally] the children of Israel,”
Declares the Lord of hosts.
2 Kings 16:9
So the king of Assyria listened to him; and he went up against Damascus and captured it, and carried its people away into exile to Kir, and put Rezin [king of Aram] to death.
2 Kings 17:5
Then the king of Assyria invaded all the land [of Israel] and went up to Samaria and besieged it for three years.
2 Kings 18:9
Now in the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh of Hoshea the son of Elah king of Israel, Shalmaneser the king of Assyria went up against Samaria and besieged it.
General references
2 Kings 19:11
Listen, you have heard what the Assyrian kings have done to all the lands, destroying them completely. So will you be spared?