Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Is not . . . as—Was there any one of these cities able to withstand me? Not one. So Rab-shakeh vaunts (Isaiah 36:19).
Calno—Calneh, built by Nimrod (Genesis 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 (Jeremiah 46:2).
Hamath—in Syria, north of Canaan (Genesis 10:18). Taken by Assyria about 753 BC From it colonists were planted by Assyria in Samaria.
Arpad—near Hamath.
Samaria—now overthrown.
Damascus— (Isaiah 17:1, Isaiah 17:3).
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 (Ezekiel 26:7; Ezra 7:12).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Isaiah 10:9:
Isaiah 10:5
Isaiah 33:8
Isaiah 36:19
Jeremiah 49:23
Amos 6:2
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