Amos 6:2
Geht hinüber nach Kalne und seht es euch an und kommt dann von dort nach dem großen Hamat; steigt auch hinab nach Gat im Philisterland! Seid ihr besser als diese Königreiche, oder ist ihr Gebiet größer als euer Gebiet?This verse in the real world
In what words
- חֲמַת רַבָּהChămath RabbâhChamath-Rabbah
- כַּלְנֶהKalnehCalneh or Calno, a place in the Assyrian empire
- גַּתGathGath, a Philistine city
- חֲמָתChămâthChamath, a place in Syria
- מַמְלָכָהmamlâkâhdominion, i.e. (abstractly) the estate (rule) or (concretely) the country (realm)
- גְּבוּלgᵉbûwlproperly, a cord (as twisted), i.e. (by implication) a boundary; by extension the territor
- פְּלִשְׁתִּיPᵉlishtîya Pelishtite or inhabitant of Pelesheth
- יָרַדyâradto descend (literally, to go downwards; or conventionally to a lower region, as the shore,
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The Hebrew and Greek words standing behind this verse. Word-by-word alignment comes with the interlinear.
What's left of it
- Gath: a Philistine capital and its siegeConfirmed by the groundGath was a very large Philistine city, and it was besieged and destroyed in the ninth century — the period and the event 2 Kings reports.
Cross-references
Nam 3:8, 2Ki 18:34, Gen 10:10, 2Ch 26:6, 1Sa 17:4, Isa 10:9–11, 2Ki 17:30, Isa 37:12–13