Amos 6:2
Go to Calneh, and see. From there go to Hamath the great. Then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are they better than these kingdoms? Is their border greater than your border?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