Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

“Is not Calno like Carchemish,
Or Hamath like Arpad,
Or Samaria like Damascus?

King James Version

Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?

Holman Bible

Isn’t Calno like Carchemish?
Isn’t Hamath like Arpad?
Isn’t Samaria like Damascus?

International Standard Version

Isn't Calno like Carchemish? Isn't Hamath like Arpad? Isn't Samaria like Damascus?

A Conservative Version

Is not Calno as Carchemish? Is not Hamath as Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus?

American Standard Version

Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?

Amplified


“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]?

Bible in Basic English

Will not the fate of Calno be like that of Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?

Darby Translation

Is not Calno as Karkemish? Is not Hamath as Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus?

Julia Smith Translation

Is not as Carchemish, Calno? if not as Arpad, Hamath? if not as Damascus, Shomeron?

King James 2000

Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?

Lexham Expanded Bible

[Is] not Calno like Carchemish? [Is] not Hamath like Arpad? [Is] not Samaria like Damascus?

Modern King James verseion

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

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Is not Calno as easy to win as Carchemish? Is it harder to conquer Hamath than Arpad? Or is it lighter to overcome Damascus than Samaria?"

NET Bible

Is not Calneh like Carchemish? Hamath like Arpad? Samaria like Damascus?

New Heart English Bible

Isn't Calno like Carchemish? Isn't Hamath like Arpad? Isn't Samaria like Damascus?"

The Emphasized Bible

Is not, Calno, like Carchemish? Is not, Hamath, like Arpad? Is not, Samaria, like Damascus?

Webster

Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?

World English Bible

Isn't Calno like Carchemish? Isn't Hamath like Arpad? Isn't Samaria like Damascus?"

Youngs Literal Translation

Is not Calno as Carchemish? Is not Hamath as Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus?

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Is not Calno
כּלנו כּלנה כּלנה 
Kalneh 
Usage: 3

כּרכּמישׁ 
Kark@miysh 
Usage: 3

is not Hamath
חמת 
Chamath 
Usage: 36

as Arpad
ארפּד 
'Arpad 
Usage: 6

is not Samaria
שׁמרון 
Shom@rown 
Usage: 109

Context Readings

Judgment On Assyria's Arrogance

8 For he shall say, Are not my princes altogether kings? 9 “Is not Calno like Carchemish,
Or Hamath like Arpad,
Or Samaria like Damascus?
10 As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel those of Jerusalem and of Samaria;

Cross References

2 Kings 16:9

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.

2 Chronicles 35:20

After all this, when Josiah had prepared the house, Necho, king of Egypt, came up to fight against Carchemish by Euphrates; and Josiah went out against him.

Genesis 10:10

And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh in the land of Shinar.

Jeremiah 46:2

To 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.

2 Samuel 8:9

When Toi, king of Hamath, heard that David had smitten all the host of Hadadezer,

2 Kings 17:5-6

Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land and went up to Samaria and besieged it three years.

2 Kings 17:24

And the king of Assyria brought Gentiles from Babylon and from Cuthah and from Ava and from Hamath and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the sons of Israel; and they possessed Samaria and dwelt in the cities thereof.

2 Kings 18:9-10

And in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hosea, son of Elah, king of Israel, Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, came up against Samaria and besieged it.

Isaiah 7:8

For the head of Syria shall be Damascus, and the head of Damascus Rezin; and within sixty-five years Ephraim shall be broken, and it shall never again be a people.

Isaiah 17:3

The succour of Ephraim shall cease, and the kingdom from Damascus and the remnant of Syria; they shall be as the glory of the sons of Israel, saith the LORD of the hosts.

Isaiah 36:19

Where is the god of Hamath and Arphad? Where is the god of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?

Isaiah 37:13

Where is the king of Hamath and the king of Arphad and the king of the city of Sepharvaim Hena, and Ivah?

Jeremiah 49:23

Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad, for they have heard bad news; they have melted in waters of feebleness; they cannot be reassured.

Amos 6:1-2

Woe unto those that are at ease in Zion and to those that trust in the mountain of Samaria, who are named principals among the same nations which shall come upon them, O house of Israel!

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