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Isaiah 10:9
9Is not Calno as Karkemish? Is not Hamath as Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus?
Isaiah 10:9 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?
- New International Version (NIV)‘Has not Kalno fared like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad, and Samaria like Damascus?
- English Standard Version (ESV)Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?
- New King James Version (NKJV)Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?
Context of Isaiah 10:9
7But he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; for it is in his heart to extirpate and cut off nations not a few. 8For he saith, Are not my princes all kings? Is not Calno as Karkemish? Is not Hamath as Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus? 10As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, — and their graven images exceeded those of Jerusalem and Samaria, 11— shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her images?
Read all of Isaiah 10Isaiah 10:9 word by word
הֲלֹ֥א כְּכַרְכְּמִ֖ישׁ כַּלְנ֑וֹ אִם־לֹ֤א כְאַרְפַּד֙ חֲמָ֔ת אִם־לֹ֥א כְדַמֶּ֖שֶׂק שֹׁמְרֽוֹן׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Isaiah 10:9
- Amos 6:1Woe to them that are at ease in Zion and that are secure in the mountain of Samaria, the renowned of the first of the nations, to whom the house of Israel come.
- 2 Chronicles 35:20After all this, when Josiah had arranged the house, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Karkemish at the Euphrates; and Josiah went out against him.
- Jeremiah 46:2Of Egypt: concerning the army of Pharaoh-Necho king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates at Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, the king of Judah.
- Isaiah 36:19Where are the gods of Hamath and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?
- Isaiah 37:13Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?
- 2 Samuel 8:9And Toi king of Hamath heard that David had smitten all the forces of Hadadezer;
- 2 Kings 17:24And the king of Assyria brought [people] from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Avva, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and made them dwell in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel; and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in its cities.
- Jeremiah 49:23Concerning Damascus. Hamath is put to shame, and Arpad; for they have heard evil tidings, they are melted away: there is distress on the sea; it cannot be quiet.
- Isaiah 7:8for the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within sixty-five years shall Ephraim be broken, so as to be no [more a] people;
- Isaiah 17:3The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith Jehovah of hosts.
- 2 Kings 16:9And the king of Assyria hearkened to him; and the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried it captive to Kir, and put Rezin to death.
- 2 Kings 17:5And the king of Assyria overran the whole land, and went up against Samaria, and besieged it three years.
- 2 Kings 18:9And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea the son of Elah, king of Israel, [that] Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria and besieged it.
Commentaries on Isaiah 10:9
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 9Is not Calno as Carchemish? - The meaning of this confident boasting is, that none of the cities and nations against which be had directed his arms, had been able to resist him. All had fallen before him; and all were alike prostrate at his feet. Carchemish had been unable to resist him, and Calno had shared the same fate. Arpad had fallen before him, and Hamath in like manner had been subdued. The words which are used here are the same nearly that…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 5-19Verses 5-19 See what a change sin made. The king of Assyria, in his pride, thought to act by his own will. The tyrants of the world are tools of Providence. God designs to correct his people for their hypocrisy, and bring them nearer to him; but is that Sennacherib's design? No; he designs to gratify his own covetousness and ambition. The Assyrian boasts what great things he has done to other nations, by his own policy and power. He knows not that it is…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9By 717 BC, Assyria controlled the regions north of Judah. These areas had fallen one by one. Calno was a city in northern Syria. It is called Calneh in Amos 6:2. The Assyrian king Tiglath-pileser III captured it in 738 BC. Carchemish stood on the Euphrates River. King Sargon II captured it in 717 BC. Hamath was located on the Orontes River. Assyria brought it under control in 738 BC and again in 720 BC. Arpad was a city south of Calno. Damascus and…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 8-118-11. Vauntings of the Assyrians. Illustrated by the self-laudatory inscriptions of Assyria deciphered by Hincks. princes ... kings--Eastern satraps and governors of provinces often had the title and diadem of kings. Hence the title, "King of kings," implying the greatness of Him who was over them (Eze 26:7; Ezr 7:12).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Isaiah 10
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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