Verse 9
9. Is not . . . as—Was there any one of these cities able to withstand me? Not one. So Rab-shakeh vaunts (Isaiah 36:19).
Calno—Calneh, built by Nimrod (Genesis 10:10), once his capital, on the Tigris.
Carchemish—Circesium, on the Euphrates. Taken afterwards by Necho, king of Egypt; and retaken by Nebuchadnezzar: by the Euphrates (Genesis 10:10- :).
Hamath—in Syria, north of Canaan (Genesis 10:18). Taken by Assyria about 753 B.C. From it colonists were planted by Assyria in Samaria.
Arpad—near Hamath.
Samaria—now overthrown.
Damascus— (Isaiah 17:1; Isaiah 17:3).
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