⁸ He will declare that every one of his princes will soon be a king, ruling a conquered land.

⁹ “We will destroy Calno just as we did Carchemish,” he will say, “and Hamath will go down before us as Arpad did; and we will destroy Samaria just as we did Damascus. ¹⁰ Yes, we have finished off many a kingdom whose idols were far greater than those in Jerusalem and Samaria,