Isaiah 10 · Verse 9

Isaiah 10:9

Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?
Isaiah 10:9, King James Version

Isaiah 10:9 in other translations

BSB“Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?
WEBIsn’t Calno like Carchemish? Isn’t Hamath like Arpad? Isn’t Samaria like Damascus?”
ASVIs not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?
YLTIs not Calno as Carchemish? Is not Hamath as Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus?
DARBYIs not Calno as Karkemish? Is not Hamath as Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus?
BBEWill not the fate of Calno be like that of Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?
WebsterIs not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?

What does Isaiah 10:9 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 10:8-11

8-11. Vauntings of the Assyrians. Illustrated by the self-laudatory inscriptions of Assyria deciphered by Hincks. princes ... kings--Eastern satraps and governors of provinces often had the title and diadem of kings. Hence the title, "King of kings," implying the greatness of Him who was over them (Eze 26:7; Ezr 7:12).

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Isaiah 10:5-19

See what a change sin made. The king of Assyria, in his pride, thought to act by his own will. The tyrants of the world are tools of Providence. God designs to correct his people for their hypocrisy, and bring them nearer to him; but is that Sennacherib's design? No; he designs to gratify his own covetousness and ambition. The Assyrian boasts what great things he has done to other nations, by his own policy and…

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Isaiah 10:9 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

הֲלֹ֥אha.Lo'¿ notH3808
כְּכַרְכְּמִ֖ישׁke.khar.ke.Mishlike CarchemishH3751
כַּלְנ֑וֹkal.No[is] CalnehH3641
אִם\־'im-or?H518
לֹ֤אlo'notH3808
כְאַרְפַּד֙khe.'ar.Padlike ArpadH774
חֲמָ֔תcha.Mat[is] HamathH2574
אִם\־'im-or?H518
לֹ֥אlo'notH3808
כְדַמֶּ֖שֶׂקkhe.da.Me.seklike DamascusH1834
שֹׁמְרֽוֹן\׃sho.me.Ron[is] SamariaH8111

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Isaiah 10:9

  • 2 Kings 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.

  • 2 Chronicles 35:20

    After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Carchemish by Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him.

  • Genesis 10:10

    And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

  • Jeremiah 46:2

    Against Egypt, against the army of Pharaoh–necho 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 Josiah king of Judah.

  • 2 Kings 17:5-6

    Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years. In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

  • Jeremiah 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.

  • Isaiah 7:8

    For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.

  • 2 Kings 18:9-10

    And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it. And at the end of three years they took it: even in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that is the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.

  • Amos 6:1-2

    Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came! 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?

  • 2 Kings 17:24

    And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.

  • 2 Samuel 8:9

    When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had smitten all the host of Hadadezer,

  • Isaiah 37:13

    Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Calno.
Am 6:1,2
Calneh.
Carchemish.
2Ch 35:20; Jer 46:2
Hamath.
36:19; 37:13; 2Sa 8:9; 2Ki 17:24; Jer 49:23
Samaria.
7:8; 17:3; 2Ki 16:9; 17:5,6; 18:9,10

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Context

  • Isaiah 10:8

    For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?

  • Isaiah 10:9

    Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?

  • Isaiah 10:10

    As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;

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Isaiah 10:9 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
¿No es Calno como Carchêmis, Hamath como Arphad, y Samaria como Damasco?
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Calno n’est-elle pas comme Carkemish? Hamath n’est-elle pas comme Arpad? Samarie n’est-elle pas comme Damas?
German
Elberfelder 1871
Ist nicht Kalno wie Karchemis? nicht Hamath wie Arpad? nicht Samaria wie Damaskus?
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Numquid non principes mei simul reges sunt? numquid non ut Charcamis, sic Calano? et ut Arphad, sic Emath? numquid non ut Damascus, sic Samaria?