Isaiah 10:9
Is not Calno as Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus?
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?
In Context
8For he sayeth, Are not my princes altogether Kings?
Cross References
Genesis 10:10And the beginning of his kingdome was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
2 Kings 16:9And the King of Asshur consented vnto him: and the King of Asshur went vp against Damascus. and when he had taken it, he caryed the people away to Kir, and slew Rezin.
2 Kings 17:24And the King of Asshur brought folke from Babel, and from Cuthah, and from Aua, and from Hamath, and from Sepharuaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria in steade of the children of Israel: so they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.
2 Kings 18:10And after three yeeres they tooke it, euen in the sixt yeere of Hezekiah: that is, the ninth yeere of Hoshea King of Israel was Samaria taken.
Isaiah 7:8For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin: and within fiue and threescore yeere, Ephraim shalbe destroyed from being a people.
Isaiah 33:8The pathes are waste: the wayfaring man ceaseth: hee hath broken the couenant: hee hath contemned the cities: he regarded no man.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 10:6-20
The Pride of the King of Assyria; Sennacherib's Pride Rebuked; Destruction of the King of Assyria. ( b. c. 740.) 5 O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation. 6 I will send him against a hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. 7 Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations… Read the whole commentary →