Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? have they delivered Samaria out of mine hand?
Study Helps
Interpretation
Rabshakeh tries to convince the Jews, that it was to no purpose for them to stand it out. What confidence is this wherein you trustest?
Glossary
- Samaria Place
- Biblical settlement. Modern identification: Samaria.
- Arpad Place
- Biblical settlement. Modern identification: Tell Rifat.
- Hamath Place
- Biblical settlement. Modern identification: Hama.
- Hena Place
- Biblical settlement. Modern identification: Anah.
- Ivvah Place
- Overturning, a city of the Assyrians, whence colonists were brought to Samaria ( 2 Kings 18:34 ; 19:13 ). It lay on the Euphrates, between Sepharvaim and Henah, and is supposed by some to have been the Ahava of Ezra (8:15). Modern identification: Kafr Aya.
- Sepharvaim Place
- Biblical settlement. Modern identification: between Damascus and Hamath.