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Isaiah 10:9

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— “Is not Calno like Carchemish, Or Hamath like Arpad, Or Samaria like Damascus?
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— [Is] not Calno as Carchemish? [is] not Hamath as Arpad? [is] not Samaria as Damascus?
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— [Is] not Calno as Carchemish? [is] not Hamath as Arpad? [is] not Samaria as Damascus?
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— Is not Calno as Karkemish? Is not Hamath as Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus?
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— Is not, Calno, like Carchemish? Is not, Hamath, like Arpad? Is not, Samaria, like Damascus?
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— Is not Calno as Carchemish? Is not Hamath as Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus?
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— Are not my princes as so many kings? is not Calano as Charcamis: and Emath as Arphad? is not Samaria as Damascus?
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— Is not Calno as Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus?
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— [Is] not Calno, as Carchemish? [is] not Hamath, as Arpad? [is] not Samaria, as Damascus?
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— 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?
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— [Is] not Kalno as Karkemish? [is] not Chamath as Arpad? [is] not Shomron as Dammaseq?

Strong's Numbers & Hebrew NamesHebrew Old TestamentColor-Code/Key Word Studies
[Is] not x3808
(3808) Complement
לֹא
lo'
{lo}
lo; a primitive particle; not (the simple or abstract negation); by implication no; often used with other particles.
Calnô כַּלנוֹ 3641
{3641} Prime
כַּלְנֶה
Kalneh
{kal-neh'}
Of foreign derivation; Calneh or Calno, a place in the Assyrian empire.
as Carcæmîš כַּרכְּמִישׁ? 3751
{3751} Prime
כַּרְכְּמִישׁ
Kark@miysh
{kar-kem-eesh'}
Of foreign derivation; Karkemish, a place in Syria.
[is] not x3808
(3808) Complement
לֹא
lo'
{lo}
lo; a primitive particle; not (the simple or abstract negation); by implication no; often used with other particles.
Çámäŧ חֲמָת 2574
{2574} Prime
חֲמָת
Chamath
{kham-awth'}
From the same as H2346; walled; Chamath, a place in Syria.
as ´Arpäđ אַרפָּד? 774
{0774} Prime
אַרְפַּד
'Arpad
{ar-pawd'}
From H7502; spread out; Arpad, a place in Syria.
[is] not x3808
(3808) Complement
לֹא
lo'
{lo}
lo; a primitive particle; not (the simple or abstract negation); by implication no; often used with other particles.
Šömrôn שֹׁמרוֹן 8111
{8111} Prime
שֹׁמְרוֹן
Shom@rown
{sho-mer-one'}
From the active participle of H8104; watch station; Shomeron, a place in Palestine.
as Dammäŝek דַּמָּשֶׂק? 1834
{1834} Prime
דַּמֶּשֶׂק
Dammeseq
{dam-meh'-sek}
Of foreign origin; Damascus, a city of Syria.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary

See commentary on Isaiah 10:8-11.


Isaiah 10:9

_ _ 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 (Jeremiah 46:2).

_ _ 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).

Matthew Henry's Commentary

See commentary on Isaiah 10:5-19.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Isaiah 10:9

Is not — Have not I conquered one place as well as another, the stronger as well as the weaker? Samaria — Or, shall not Samaria be as Damascus? Shall I not take that, as I have done this city?

Geneva Bible Translation Notes

Isaiah 10:9

[Is] not Calno as (g) Carchemish? [is] not Hamath as Arpad? [is] not Samaria as Damascus?

(g) Seeing that I have overcome one city as well as another, so that none could resist, shall Jerusalem be able to escape my hands?

Cross-Reference Topical ResearchStrong's Concordance
Calno:

Amos 6:1-2 Woe to them [that are] at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, [which are] named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came! ... Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: [be they] better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border?
, Calneh

Carchemish:

2 Chronicles 35:20 After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Carchemish by Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him.
Jeremiah 46:2 Against Egypt, against the army of Pharaohnecho king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah.

Hamath:

Isaiah 36:19 Where [are] the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where [are] the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?
Isaiah 37:13 Where [is] the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?
2 Samuel 8:9 When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had smitten all the host of Hadadezer,
2 Kings 17:24 And the king of Assyria brought [men] from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed [them] in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.
Jeremiah 49:23 Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; [there is] sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.

Samaria:

Isaiah 7:8 For the head of Syria [is] Damascus, and the head of Damascus [is] Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.
Isaiah 17:3 The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts.
2 Kings 16:9 And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him: for the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried [the people of] it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin.
2 Kings 17:5-6 Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years. ... In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor [by] the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
2 Kings 18:9-10 And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which [was] the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, [that] Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it. ... And at the end of three years they took it: [even] in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that [is] the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.
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Chain-Reference Bible SearchCross References with Concordance

2S 8:9. 2K 16:9; 17:5, 24; 18:9. 2Ch 35:20. Is 7:8; 17:3; 36:19; 37:13. Jr 46:2; 49:23. Am 6:1.

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