Isa 10:9, 36:19 | JFB | STEP | 9. Is not . . . as —Was there any one of these cities able to withstand me? Not one. So Rab-shakeh vaunts ( ). Calno —Calneh, built by Nimrod ( ), 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 ( ). Hamath —in Syria, north of Canaan ( ). Taken by Assyria about 753 B.C. From it colonists were planted by Assyria in Samaria. Arpad —near Hamath. Samaria —now overthrown. Damascus

Isaiah 10:9

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 36:19

19. Hamath . . . Arphad—(See on Isa 10:9).

Sepharvaim—literally, "the two scribes"; now Sipphara, on the east of Euphrates, above Babylon. It was a just retribution (Pr 1:31; Jer 2:19). Israel worshipped the gods of Sepharvaim, and so colonists of Sepharvaim were planted in the land of Israel (thenceforth called Samaria) by the Assyrian conqueror (2Ki 17:24; compare 2Ki 18:34).

Samaria—Shalmaneser began the siege against Hoshea, because of his conspiring with So of Egypt (2Ki 17:4). Sargon finished it; and, in his palace at Khorsabad, he has mentioned the number of Israelites carried captive—27,280 [G. V. SMITH].