isaiah 10:9 Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?

isaiah 10:9 "Is not Calno like Carchemish, Or Hamath like Arpad, Or Samaria like Damascus?

9. Is not . . . as--Was there any one of these cities able to withstand me? Not one. So Rab-shakeh vaunts (Isa 36:19).
Calno--Calneh, built by Nimrod (Ge 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 (Jer 46:2).
Hamath--in Syria, north of Canaan (Ge 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-- (Isa 17:1, 3).

isaiah 10:9 "Is not Calno like Carchemish, Or Hamath like Arpad, Or Samaria like Damascus?

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