Isaiah 10:9
Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?
KJV
Numquid non principes mei simul reges sunt ? numquid non ut Charcamis, sic Calano ? et ut Arphad, sic Emath ? numquid non ut Damascus, sic Samaria ?
Vulgate
καὶ ἐρεῖ Οὐκ ἔλαβον τὴν χώραν τὴν ἐπάνω Βαβυλῶνος καὶ Χαλαννή, οὗ ὁ πύργος ᾠκοδομήθη; καὶ ἔλαβον Ἀραβίαν καὶ Δαμασκὸν καὶ Σαμάρειαν·
LXX
Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?
ASV
הֲ/לֹ֥א כְּ/כַרְכְּמִ֖ישׁ כַּלְנ֑וֹ אִם לֹ֤א כְ/אַרְפַּד֙ חֲמָ֔ת אִם לֹ֥א כְ/דַמֶּ֖שֶׂק שֹׁמְרֽוֹן
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אִם
'm
conjunction · 1065×
אַרְפָּ֔ד
'rpd
proper_noun · 6×
דַּמֶּ֔שֶׂק
dmshq
proper_noun · 45×
חֲמָ֑ת
chmt
proper_noun · 35×
כַֽלְנֵה֙
klnh
proper_noun · 3×
כַרְכְּמִ֖ישׁ
krkmysh
proper_noun · 3×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
שֹׁמְרֽוֹן
shmrvn
proper_noun · 108×
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§304And so we see the Holy Spirit, the principal author of Sacred Scripture, often attributing actions to God without mentioning any secondary causes. This is not a "primitive mode of speech", but a profound way of recalling God's primacy and absolute Lordship over history and the world,165 and so of educating his people to trust in him. the prayer of the Psalms is the great school…
Cross-references
- 2Chr 35:20 — After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Charchemish by Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him.
- 2Chr 35:20 — After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Charchemish by Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him.
- 2Kgs 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.
- 2Kgs 18:34 — Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? have they delivered Samaria out of mine hand?
- Amos 6:2 — 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?
- Gen 10:10 — And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
- Isa 11:11 — And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros,
- Isa 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?
- Jer 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 Jos
- Jer 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 Jos
- Jer 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.