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 that Josiah had prepared for the temple, Neco king of Egypt marched up to fight at Carchemish by the Euphrates, and Josiah went out to confront him.
Jeremiah 46:2
About Egypt and the army of Pharaoh Neco, Egypt’s king, which was defeated at Carchemish on the Euphrates River by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon in the fourth year of Judah’s King Jehoiakim son of Josiah:
Samaria
Isaiah 7:8 The head of Aram is Damascus,
the head of Damascus is Rezin
(within 65 years
Ephraim will be too shattered to be a people),
the head of Damascus is Rezin
(within 65 years
Ephraim will be too shattered to be a people),
Isaiah 17:3 The fortress disappears from Ephraim,
and a kingdom from Damascus.
The remnant of Aram will be
like the splendor of the Israelites.
This is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts.
and a kingdom from Damascus.
The remnant of Aram will be
like the splendor of the Israelites.
This is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts.
2 Kings 16:9
So the king of Assyria listened to him and marched up to Damascus and captured it. He deported its people to Kir but put Rezin to death.
2 Kings 17:5
Then the king of Assyria invaded the whole land, marched up to Samaria, and besieged it for three years.
2 Kings 18:9
In the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Israel’s King Hoshea son of Elah, Shalmaneser king of Assyria marched against Samaria and besieged it.
General references
2 Kings 19:11
Look, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the countries: they completely destroyed them. Will you be rescued?