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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 (Gen 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 (Gen 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, Isa 17:3).