Isaiah 10:9

Christian Standard Bible ®

Isn’t Calno like Carchemish?Isn’t Hamath like Arpad?Isn’t Samaria like Damascus?

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Isn't Kalno as Karkemish? Isn't Hamat as Arpad? Isn't Shomron as Dammesek?

King James Version
Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?

English Standard Version
Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?

New American Standard Bible
"Is not Calno like Carchemish, Or Hamath like Arpad, Or Samaria like Damascus?

New Century Version
The city Calno is like the city Carchemish. The city Hamath is like the city Arpad. The city Samaria is like the city Damascus.

Amplified Bible
"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]?

World English Bible
Isn't Calno as Carchemish? Isn't Hamath as Arpad? Isn't Samaria as Damascus?

Geneva Bible (1587)
Is not Calno as Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus?

Legacy Standard Bible
Is not Calno like Carchemish,Or Hamath like Arpad,Or Samaria like Damascus?

Berean Standard Bible
"Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?

Contemporary English Version
They have already captured the cities of Calno, Carchemish, Hamath, Arpad, Samaria, and Damascus.

Complete Jewish Bible
Hasn't Kalno [suffered] like Kark'mish, Hamat like Arpad, Shomron like Dammesek?

Darby Translation
Is not Calno as Karkemish? Is not Hamath as Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus?

Easy-to-Read Version
The city of Calno is no better than the city of Carchemish. Arpad is like Hamath, and Samaria is like Damascus.

George Lamsa Translation
Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?

Good News Translation
I conquered the cities of Calno and Carchemish, the cities of Hamath and Arpad. I conquered Samaria and Damascus.

Lexham English Bible
Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?

Literal Translation
Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is Hamath not like Arpad? Is Samaria not like Damascus?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Is not Calno as easie to wynne, as Charchamis? Is it harder to conquere Antiochia then Arphad? Or is it lighter to ouercome Damascus the Samaria?

American Standard Version
Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?

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?

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Is not Calno as Carchemish? Is not Hamath as Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus?

King James Version (1611)
Is not Calno, as Carchemish? Is not Hamath, as Arpad? Is not Samaria, as Damascus?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Is not Chalno as easie to winne, as Charchamis? Is it harder to conquer Hamath, then Arphad? or is it lighter to ouercome Damascus, then Samaria?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
then shall he say, Have I not taken the country above Babylon and Chalanes, where the tower was built? and have I not taken Arabia, and Damascus, and Samaria?

English Revised Version
Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Whether not as Carcamys, so Calanno; and as Arphat, so Emath? whether not as Damask, so Samarie?

Update Bible Version
Isn't Calno as Carchemish? isn't Hamath as Arpad? isn't Samaria as Damascus?

Webster's Bible Translation
[Is] not Calno as Carchemish? [is] not Hamath as Arpad? [is] not Samaria as Damascus?

New English Translation
Is not Calneh like Carchemish? Hamath like Arpad? Samaria like Damascus?

New King James Version
Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?

New Living Translation
We destroyed Calno just as we did Carchemish. Hamath fell before us as Arpad did. And we destroyed Samaria just as we did Damascus.

New Life Bible
Is not Calno like Carchemish, or Hamath like Arpad, or Samaria like Damascus?

New Revised Standard
Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Is not, Calno, like Carchemish? Is not, Hamath, like Arpad? Is not, Samaria, like Damascus?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Are not my princes as so many kings? is not Calano as Charcamis: and Emath as Arphad? is not Samaria as Damascus?

Revised Standard Version
Is not Calno like Car'chemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Sama'ria like Damascus?

Young's Literal Translation
Is not Calno as Carchemish? Is not Hamath as Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus?

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Is not Calno like Carchemish, Or Hamath like Arpad, Or Samaria like Damascus?

Contextual Overview

⁵Woe to Assyria, the rod of my anger—the staff in their hands is my wrath. ⁶I will send him against a godless nation;I will command him to goagainst a people destined for my rage,to take spoils, to plunder,and to trample them down like clay in the streets. ⁷But this is not what he intends;this is not what he plans.It is his intent to destroyand to cut off many nations. ⁸For he says,“Aren’t all my commanders kings? ⁹Isn’t Calno like Carchemish?Isn’t Hamath like Arpad?Isn’t Samaria like Damascus?¹⁰As my hand seized the idolatrous kingdoms,whose idols exceeded those of Jerusalem and Samaria, ¹¹and as I did to Samaria and its worthless imageswill I not also do to Jerusalem and its idols?” ¹²But when the Lord finishes all his work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, he will say, “I will punish the king of Assyria for his arrogant acts and the proud look in his eyes.” ¹³For he said: ¹⁴My hand has reached out, as if into a nest,to seize the wealth of the nations.Like one gathering abandoned eggs,I gathered the whole earth.No wing fluttered;no beak opened or chirped.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Calno: Amos 6:1, Amos 6:2, Calneh

Carchemish: 2 Chronicles 35:20, Jeremiah 46:2

Hamath: Isaiah 36:19, Isaiah 37:13, 2 Samuel 8:9, 2 Kings 17:24, Jeremiah 49:23

Samaria: Isaiah 7:8, Isaiah 17:3, 2 Kings 16:9, 2 Kings 17:5, 2 Kings 17:6, 2 Kings 18:9, 2 Kings 18:10

Reciprocal: Genesis 10:10 - Calneh Genesis 10:18 - Hamathite Joshua 13:5 - unto the 2 Kings 19:17 - the kings 2 Chronicles 32:13 - I and my Isaiah 9:9 - even Ephraim Isaiah 9:11 - set up Isaiah 11:11 - Hamath Isaiah 17:1 - Damascus is Isaiah 33:8 - he hath despised Isaiah 37:19 - And have Ezekiel 25:8 - the house Ezekiel 27:8 - Arvad Ezekiel 27:23 - Canneh Amos 3:11 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 6:4
The Nephilim were on the earth both in those days and afterward, when the sons of God came to the daughters of mankind, who bore children to them. They were the powerful men of old, the famous men.

Genesis 6:11
Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and the earth was filled with wickedness.

Genesis 13:13
(Now the men of Sodom were evil, sinning immensely against the Lord.)

Genesis 25:27
When the boys grew up, Esau became an expert hunter, an outdoorsman, but Jacob was a quiet man who stayed at home.

Genesis 27:30
As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob and Jacob had left the presence of his father Isaac, his brother Esau arrived from his hunting.

2 Chronicles 28:22
At the time of his distress, King Ahaz himself became more unfaithful to the Lord.

Psalms 52:7
“Here is the manwho would not make God his refuge,but trusted in the abundance of his riches,taking refuge in his destructive behavior.”

Jeremiah 16:16
“I am about to send for many fishermen”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“and they will fish for them. Then I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill and out of the clefts of the rocks,

Ezekiel 13:18
Say, ‘This is what the Lord God says: Woe to the women who sew magic bands on the wrist of every hand and who make veils for the heads of people of every size in order to ensnare lives. Will you ensnare the lives of my people but preserve your own?

Micah 7:2
Faithful people have vanished from the land;there is no one upright among the people.All of them wait in ambush to shed blood;they hunt each other with a net.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

[Is] not Calno as Carchemish?.... Jarchi's note is,

"as the children of Carchemish are princes and rulers, so are the children of Calno;''

as if this was giving an instance of the grandeur of his subjects; but much better is the Targum,

"as Carchemish is subdued before me, shall not Calno be so?''

as I or my ancestors have conquered the one, it is as easy for me to conquer the other; or as sure as the one is subject to me, so sure shall the other be; for Carchemish was a city belonging to the Assyrians, situated upon the river Euphrates, 2 Chronicles 35:20 called by Ammianus k Circusium; the Syriac version calls it Barchemosh; and Calno is the same with Calneh in the land of Shinar, a city built by Nimrod, Genesis 10:10 in the Septuagint version it is called Chalane, and it is added,

"where the tower was built;''

from whence the country, called by Pliny l Chalonitis, had its name, the chief city of which was Ctesiphon, thought to be the same with Calneh.

[Is] not Hamath as Arphad? Hamath and Arphad were both cities conquered by the Assyrians; see 2 Kings 18:34 and are both mentioned along with Damascus, Jeremiah 49:23.

[Is] not Samaria as Damascus? Damascus was the metropolis of Syria, and was taken by the Assyrians; and Samaria was the metropolis of Ephraim, or the ten tribes; see Isaiah 7:8 and was as easy to be taken as Damascus was. The Targum is,

"as Arphad is delivered into my hands, shall not Hamath be so? As I have done to Damascus, so will I do to Samaria.''

k L. 23. c. 5. p. 360. l Nat. Hist. l. 6. c. 26. and 27.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Is 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 Rabshakeh used when he was sent by Sennacherib to insult Hezekiah and the Jews; Isaiah 36:19; 2 Kings 18:34. “Calno” was a city in the land of Shinar, and was probably the city built by Nimrod, called in Genesis 10:10, “Calneh,” and at one time the capital of his empire. It is mentioned by Ezekiel, Ezekiel 27:23. According to the Targums, Jerome, Eusebius, and others, Calno or Calneh, was the same city as “Ctesiphon,” a large city on the bank of the Tigris, and opposite to Selcucia. - “Gesenius” and “Calmet.”

Carchemish - This was a city on the Euphrates, belonging to Assyria. It was taken by Necho, king of Egypt, and re-taken by Nebuchadnezzar in the fourth year of Jehoiachin, king of Judah; 2 Kings 23:29. Probably it is the same city as Cercusium, or Kirkisia, which is situated in the angle formed by the junction of the Chebar and the Euphrates; compare Jer 46:2; 2 Chronicles 25:20.

Hamath - This was a celebrated city of Syria. It is referred to in Genesis 10:18, as the seat of one of the tribes of Canaan. It is often mentioned as the northern limit of Canaan. in its widest extent; Numbers 13:21; Joshua 13:5; Judges 3:3. The Assyrians became masters of this city about 753 years before Christ; 2 Kings 17:24. Burckhardt mentions this city as situated on both sides of the river Orontes. The town is at present of considerable extent, and contains about 30,000 inhabitants. There are four bridges over the Orontes, in the town. The trade of the town now is with the Arabs, who buy here their tent-furniture, and their clothes. This city was visited by Eli Smith, in 1834. It lies, says he, on the narrow valley of the ‘Asy; and is so nearly concealed by the high banks, that one sees little of it until he actually comes up to the gates: “see” Robinson’s “Bib. Researches,” vol. iii. App. pp. 176, 177.

Arpad - This city was not far from Hamath, and is called by the Greeks Epiphania; 2 Kings 18:34.

Samaria - The capital of Israel, or Ephraim. From the mention of this place, it is evident that this prophecy was written after Samaria had been destroyed; see the notes at Isaiah 7:9; Isaiah 28:1.

As Damascus - The capital of Syria; see the note at Isaiah 7:9, and the Analysis of Isaiah 17:1-14. The Septuagint has varied in their translation here considerably from the Hebrew. They render these verses, ‘And he saith, Have I not taken the region beyond Babylon, and Chalane, where the tower was built? and I have taken Arabia, and Damascus, and Samaria.’ The main idea, however - the boast of the king of Assyria, is retained.