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Amos 6:2

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Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: [be they] better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border?

Pass {H5674} ye unto Calneh {H3641}, and see {H7200}; and from thence go {H3212} ye to Hamath {H2574} the great {H7227}{H2579}: then go down {H3381} to Gath {H1661} of the Philistines {H6430}: be they better {H2896} than these kingdoms {H4467}? or their border {H1366} greater {H7227} than your border {H1366}?

Travel to Kalneh and see; from there go on to Hamat the great; then go down to Gat of the P'lishtim. Are you better than these kingdoms? Is their territory larger than yours?

Cross over to Calneh and see; go from there to the great Hamath; then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are you better than these kingdoms? Is their territory larger than yours?

Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great; then go down to Gath of the Philistines: are they better than these kingdoms? or is their border greater than your border?

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Cross-References

  • Nahum 3:8 (7 votes)

    ¶ Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, [that had] the waters round about it, whose rampart [was] the sea, [and] her wall [was] from the sea?

  • Genesis 10:10 (5 votes)

    And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

  • 2 Kings 18:34 (5 votes)

    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?

  • 2 Chronicles 26:6 (4 votes)

    And he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and brake down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities about Ashdod, and among the Philistines.

  • Isaiah 10:9 (3 votes)

    [Is] not Calno as Carchemish? [is] not Hamath as Arpad? [is] not Samaria as Damascus?

  • Isaiah 10:11 (3 votes)

    Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?

  • 1 Samuel 17:4 (3 votes)

    And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height [was] six cubits and a span.