Isaiah 10:9

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Is not, Calno, like Carchemish? Is not, Hamath, like Arpad? Is not, Samaria, like Damascus?

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Isn’t Calno like Carchemish?Isn’t Hamath like Arpad?Isn’t Samaria like Damascus?

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?

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

⁵ Alas! for Assyria, the rod of mine anger, - Yea, the very staff in their hand, is, my displeasure: ⁶ Against an irreligious nation, will I send him, Yea against the people with whom I am wroth, will I command him, - To capture spoil And lay hold on prey, And cause them to be trodden down as the mire of the lanes. ⁷ But as for him, not so, doth he deem, And in his heart, not so, doth he think, - For, to destroy, is in his heart, And to cut off nations, not a few; ⁸ For he saith: - Are not, my generals, all alike, kings? ⁹ Is not, Calno, like Carchemish? Is not, Hamath, like Arpad? Is not, Samaria, like Damascus? ¹⁰ As my hand hath reached unto the kingdoms of idols, - whose images did excel them of Jerusalem and Samaria, ¹¹ Shall I not as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so, do to Jerusalem and her images? ¹² Wherefore it shall come to pass - When My Lord shall finish his whole work upon Mount Zion and upon Jerusalem, I will bring punishment - Upon the fruit of the greatness of heart of the king of Assyria. And upon the vainglory of his uplifted eyes, ¹³ For he hath said - By the strength of mine own hand, have I effectually wrought, And by my wisdom - for I have discernment, - That I might remove the bounds of peoples, Yea their treasures, have I plundered That I might lay prostrate as a mighty one the inhabitants; ¹⁴ And my hand hath found as a nest the wealth of the peoples, And as the gathering of eggs that are forsaken, all the earth, have, I, gathered, - And there was none to flap a wing, or open a mouth or chirp.

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 giants, were in the each in these days, and also, after that, when the sons of God began to go in unto the daughters of men, and sons were born to them, the same, were the heroes that were from age-past times the men of renown.

Genesis 6:11
And the earth corrupted itself before God, - and the earth was filled with violence,

Genesis 13:13
Now, the men of Sodom were base and sinful, - against Yahweh, exceedingly.

Genesis 25:27
And when the youths grew up, it came to pass that Esau was a man skilled in game a man of the field, - but, Jacob, was a ready man, dwelling in tents.

Genesis 27:30
And it came to pass as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, - yea it came to pass when Jacob, had only just gone forth, from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother, came in from his hunting.

2 Chronicles 28:22
And, in the time of his distress, he yet further acted unfaithfully with Yahweh, - he, King Ahaz!

Psalms 52:7
Lo! the man who made not God his refuge, - But trusted in the abundance of his riches, Emboldened himself in his wealth!

Jeremiah 16:16
Behold me! sending for many fishers Declareth Yahweh, And they shall catch them, - and thereafter will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from off every mountain and from off every hill, and out of the clefts of the crags.

Ezekiel 13:18
and say, Thus, saith My Lord Yahweh, Alas! for the women Who sew oracle, cases on all elbows And prepare wraps upon the head of every stature to hunt souls, - the souls ye hunt, are those of my people, Whereas your own souls:, ye keep alive.

Micah 7:2
Perished is the man of lovingkindness out of the earth, and, upright among men, is there none, - they all, for bloodshed, lie in wait. Every man - for his brother, do they hunt as for one devoted to destruction.

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.