Isn’t Calno like Carchemish?
Isn’t Hamath like Arpad?
Isn’t Samaria(A) like Damascus?[a]
10 As my hand seized the kingdoms of worthless images,
kingdoms whose idols exceeded those of Jerusalem and Samaria,
11 and as I did to Samaria and its worthless images
will I not also do to Jerusalem and its idols?” (B)

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Footnotes

  1. 10:9 Cities conquered by Assyria

    ‘Has not Kalno(A) fared like Carchemish?(B)
Is not Hamath(C) like Arpad,(D)
    and Samaria(E) like Damascus?(F)
10 As my hand seized the kingdoms of the idols,(G)
    kingdoms whose images excelled those of Jerusalem and Samaria—
11 shall I not deal with Jerusalem and her images
    as I dealt with Samaria and her idols?(H)’”

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11 Look, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the countries: they completely destroyed them. Will you be rescued? 12 Did the gods of the nations(A) that my predecessors destroyed rescue them—Gozan,(B) Haran,(C) Rezeph, and the Edenites in Telassar? 13 Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of[a] Sepharvaim, Hena, or Ivvah?’”

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  1. 37:13 Or king of Lair,

11 Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the countries, destroying them completely. And will you be delivered?(A) 12 Did the gods of the nations that were destroyed by my predecessors(B) deliver them—the gods of Gozan, Harran,(C) Rezeph and the people of Eden(D) who were in Tel Assar? 13 Where is the king of Hamath or the king of Arpad?(E) Where are the kings of Lair, Sepharvaim,(F) Hena and Ivvah?”(G)

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Prophecies against Damascus

23 About Damascus:(A)

Hamath and Arpad are put to shame,(B)
for they have heard a bad report and are agitated,
like[a] the anxious sea that cannot be calmed.

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Footnotes

  1. 49:23 Lit in

A Message About Damascus

23 Concerning Damascus:(A)

“Hamath(B) and Arpad(C) are dismayed,
    for they have heard bad news.
They are disheartened,
    troubled like[a] the restless sea.(D)

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  1. Jeremiah 49:23 Hebrew on or by