⁹     ‘Has not Kalno^(A) fared like Carchemish?^(B)
Is not Hamath^(C) like Arpad,^(D)
    and Samaria^(E) like Damascus?^(F)

² Go to Kalneh^(A) and look at it;
    go from there to great Hamath,^(B)
    and then go down to Gath^(C) in Philistia.
Are they better off than^(D) your two kingdoms?
    Is their land larger than yours?