Hamath in the Bible

Meaning: anger; heat; a wall

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So they went up and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, as men come to Hamath.

Verse ConceptsDeserts, SpecificWilderness Of Zin

From mount Hor ye shall point out your border unto the entrance of Hamath; and the goings forth of the border shall be to Zedad:

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and the land of the Gebalites, and all the Lebanon, to the rising of the sun, from Baal-gad, under Mount Hermon, - as far as the entering in of Hamath:

Hamath Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the boundary of Damascus and the boundary of Hamath, - Hazer-hatticon, which is by the boundary of Hauran.

And Solomon made, at that time, a festival - and all Israel with him - a great convocation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the ravine of Egypt, before Yahweh our God, seven days, and seven days, - fourteen days.

So they went up, and spied out the land, - from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob at the entering in of Hamath.

From Mount Hor, ye shall draw a line to the entering in of Hamath, - and the extension of the boundary shall be towards Zedad:


And David smote Hadarezer king of Zobah, towards Hamath, - as he went to establish his hold of the river Euphrates.

And, when Tou king of Hamath heard that David had smitten all the forces of Hadadezer, then Tou sent Hadoram his son unto King David, to ask after his welfare, and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer and had smitten him, for Hadadezer had had wars with Tou, - and, in his hand, were vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and vessels of bronze.

And, when Tou, king of Hamath, heard that David had smitten all the force of Hadarezer king of Zobah, he sent Hadoram his son unto King David, to ask after his welfare, and to bless him, because he had made war against Hadarezer and had smitten him, for, a man making wars against Tou, had been Hadarezer, - and he had with him all manner of vessels of gold and silver and bronze;


He, restored the boundary of Israel, from the entering in of Hamath, unto the sea of the waste plain, - according to the word of Yahweh, God of Israel, which he spake by the hand of his servant Jonah, son of Amittai, the prophet, who was of Gath-hepher.

Now, the rest of the story of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might when he warred, and how he restored Damascus and Hamath to Judah in Israel, are, they, not written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?


and Nebuzaradan, chief of the royal executioners, took them, - and brought them unto the king of Babylon, at Riblah; and the king of Babylon smote them and slew them in Riblah, in the land of Hamath, - and thus Judah disappeared from off their own soil.


And it shall come to pass in that day, That My Lord will again a second time set his hand, to possess himself of the remnant of his people, - who shall be left - from Assyria and from Egypt and from Pathros and from Ethiopia and from Elam and from Shinar and from Hamath and from the Coastlands of the sea;


Of Damascus. Turned pale have Hamath and Arpad, For, a calamitous report, have they heard - they tremble, - In the sea, is anxiety, it cannot, rest.


and the Arvadite and the Zemarite and the Hamathite, - and after-wards, were spread abroad the families of the Canaanite.


and he built Tadmor, in the wilderness, - and all the store cities, which he built in Hamath;


Pass ye over to Calneh, and see, and go on from thence to Hamath the great, - and go down to Gath of the Philistines, are they better than these kingdoms? or their boundary larger than your boundary?


And, when Tou king of Hamath heard that David had smitten all the forces of Hadadezer, then Tou sent Hadoram his son unto King David, to ask after his welfare, and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer and had smitten him, for Hadadezer had had wars with Tou, - and, in his hand, were vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and vessels of bronze.