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    [a]“Is not Calno like Carchemish,
Or Hamath like Arpad,
    or Samaria like Damascus?

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Footnotes

  1. 10:9–10 The cities mentioned were all cities captured, some more than once, by the Assyrians in the eighth century B.C. Verse 9 suggests a certain historical order in the fall of these cities, and v. 10 suggests that all of them had fallen before Samaria (cf. Am 6:2). That implies that one should think primarily of events during the reign of Tiglath-pileser III (745–727).

    ‘Has not Kalno(A) fared like Carchemish?(B)
Is not Hamath(C) like Arpad,(D)
    and Samaria(E) like Damascus?(F)

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13 Where are the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, or a king of the cities Sepharvaim, Hena or Ivvah?”

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13 Where is the king of Hamath or the king of Arpad?(A) Where are the kings of Lair, Sepharvaim,(B) Hena and Ivvah?”(C)

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