Isaiah 10:9

Good News Translation

I conquered the cities of Calno and Carchemish, the cities of Hamath and Arpad. I conquered Samaria and 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?

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

⁵ The Lord said, "Assyria! I use Assyria like a club to punish those with whom I am angry. ⁶ I sent Assyria to attack a godless nation, people who have made me angry. I sent them to loot and steal and trample the people like dirt in the streets." ⁷ But the Assyrian emperor has his own violent plans in mind. He is determined to destroy many nations. ⁸ He boasts, "Every one of my commanders is a king! ⁹ I conquered the cities of Calno and Carchemish, the cities of Hamath and Arpad. I conquered Samaria and Damascus. ¹⁰ I reached out to punish those kingdoms that worship idols, idols more numerous than those of Jerusalem and Samaria. ¹¹ I have destroyed Samaria and all its idols, and I will do the same to Jerusalem and the images that are worshiped there." ¹² But the Lord says, "When I finish what I am doing on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, I will punish the emperor of Assyria for all his boasting and all his pride." ¹³ The emperor of Assyria boasts, "I have done it all myself. I am strong and wise and clever. I wiped out the boundaries between nations and took the supplies they had stored. Like a bull I have trampled the people who live there. ¹⁴ The nations of the world were like a bird's nest, and I gathered their wealth as easily as gathering eggs. Not a wing fluttered to scare me off; no beak opened to scream at me!"

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
In those days, and even later, there were giants on the earth who were descendants of human women and the heavenly beings. They were the great heroes and famous men of long ago.

Genesis 6:11
but everyone else was evil in God's sight, and violence had spread everywhere.

Genesis 13:13
whose people were wicked and sinned against the Lord .

Genesis 25:27
The boys grew up, and Esau became a skilled hunter, a man who loved the outdoors, but Jacob was a quiet man who stayed at home.

Genesis 27:30
Isaac finished giving his blessing, and as soon as Jacob left, his brother Esau came in from hunting.

2 Chronicles 28:22
When his troubles were at their worst, that man Ahaz sinned against the Lord more than ever.

Psalms 52:7
"Look, here is someone who did not depend on God for safety, but trusted instead in great wealth and looked for security in being wicked."

Jeremiah 16:16
The Lord says, "I am sending for many fishermen to come and catch these people. Then I will send for many hunters to hunt them down on every mountain and hill and in the caves among the rocks.

Ezekiel 13:18
and tell them what the Sovereign Lord is saying to them: "You women are doomed! You sew magic wristbands for everyone and make magic scarves for everyone to wear on their heads, so that they can have power over other people's lives. You want to possess the power of life and death over my people and to use it for your own benefit.

Micah 7:2
There is not an honest person left in the land, no one loyal to God. Everyone is waiting for a chance to commit murder. Everyone hunts down their own people.

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.