Parallel Verses

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?"

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?

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 sayeth, "Are not my princes all kings? 9 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?" 10 As who say, "I were able to win the kingdom of the Idolaters and their gods, but not Jerusalem and Samaria.


Cross References

2 Kings 16:9

And the king of Assyria hearkened to him, and went to Damascus, and took it, and carried the people away to Kir and slew Rezin.

2 Chronicles 35:20

After all this, when Josiah had finished the temple, Neco king of Egypt came up to fight against Carchemish upon Euphrates, and Josiah went out against him.

Genesis 10:10

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

Jeremiah 46:2

These words following preached he to the Egyptians concerning the Host of Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt, when he was in Carchemish beside the water of Euphrates: what time as Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon slew him; In the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah.

2 Samuel 8:9

When Toi, king of Hamath, had heard how David had discomforted all the host of Hadadezer,

2 Kings 17:5-6

And then the king of Assyria came throughout all the land, and came to Samaria and besieged it three years.

2 Kings 17:24

And the king of Assyria brought from Babylon and from Cuthah, and from Avva and from Hamath and from Sepharvaim, and put them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel. And they possessed Samaria and dwelt in the cities thereof.

2 Kings 18:9-10

And the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, came Shalmaneser king of Assyria upon Samaria and besieged it.

Isaiah 7:8

For the head city of the Syrians is Damascus, but the head of Damascus is Rezin. And after five and threescore years, shall Ephraim be no more a people.

Isaiah 17:3

Ephraim shall no more be strong, and Damascus shall no more be a kingdom. And as for the glory of the remnant of the Syrians, it shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, sayeth the LORD of Hosts.

Isaiah 36:19

Where is the God of Hamath and Arpad? Where is the God of Sepharvaim? And who was able to defend Samaria out of my hand?

Isaiah 37:13

Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?'"

Jeremiah 49:23

"Upon Damascus, Hamath and Arpad shall come confusion, for they shall hear evil tidings: they shall be tossed to and fro like the sea that cannot stand still.

Amos 6:1-2

O Woe be to the proud wealthy in Zion, to such as think them so sure upon the mount of Samaria: which hold themselves for the best of the world, and rule the house of Israel, even as they list.

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