Isaiah 10:8-11

Contemporary English Version

⁸The king of Assyria says:

My army commanders are kings! ⁹They have already captured^[a] the cities of Calno, Carchemish, Hamath, Arpad, Samaria, and Damascus. ^10-11^(A) The gods of Jerusalem and Samaria are weaker than the gods of those powerful nations. And I will destroy Jerusalem, together with its gods and idols, just as I did Samaria.

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10.9 already captured: Calno (in northern Syria), Carchemish (on the Euphrates River), Hamath (on the Orontes River), Arpad (near Aleppo in northern Syria), Samaria, and Damascus had already been captured by Assyrian kings (738–717 b.c.).