2 Kings 18:34

Translations

Modern

Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?

Traditional

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?

Literal

Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim and Hena and Ivah? Indeed, have they delivered Samaria from my hand?

Latin

…ubi est deus Emath, et Arphad? ubi est deus Sepharvaim, Ana, et Ava? numquid liberaverunt Samariam de manu mea?

Original

Hebrew

English

Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?

Notes

2 Kings 18:32–35

The LORD will deliver us: The Assyrian chief of staff mocked Judah’s trust in the Lord. He claimed that the Lord was no different from the gods of other nations and could not save them.
Arpad was a city-state northwest of Aleppo. Like Hamath, it was a center of Aramean activity and is mentioned elsewhere in the Old Testament (see Isaiah 10:9; Jeremiah 49:23).

Theme notes and profiles

Assyria Hezekiah God’s Judgment of His People Invasion Nehemiah’s Confidence in God

Events

Reign of Hezekiahc. 726 BC

Related verses

Isaiah 10:9
“Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?
Isaiah 36:18–19
Do not let Hezekiah mislead you when he says, ‘The LORD will deliver us.’ Has the god of any nation ever delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?
Jeremiah 49:23
Concerning Damascus: “Hamath and Arpad are put to shame, for they have heard a bad report; they are agitated like the sea; their anxiety cannot be calmed.
Numbers 13:21
So they went up and spied out the land from the Wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, toward Lebo-hamath.
Isaiah 37:11–12
Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the other countries, devoting them to destruction. Will you then be spared?
Isaiah 37:18–19
Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all these countries and their lands.
2 Kings 17:6
In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried away the Israelites to Assyria, where he settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes.
2 Samuel 8:9
When King Toi of Hamath heard that David had defeated the entire army of Hadadezer,
2 Kings 19:12–13
Did the gods of the nations destroyed by my fathers rescue those nations—the gods of Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph, and of the people of Eden in Telassar?
2 Kings 17:23–33
Finally, the LORD removed Israel from His presence, as He had declared through all His servants the prophets. So Israel was exiled from their homeland into Assyria, where they are to this day.

Parallels

2 Chronicles 32:9–19 Isaiah 36:1–22

Places

Arpad: City conquered by Assyria Hamath: A major city and kingdom in Syria, often mentioned in the Bible Hena: Mesopotamian city conquered by Assyria Ivvah: City conquered by Assyria, people resettled in Samaria Samaria: Capital city of the northern kingdom of Israel; Samaritan inhabitants Sepharvaim: City of origin for people resettled in Samaria

Glossary

Arpad Assyria, Assyrians Avva Eliakim Hamath Hena Hezekiah Inscriptions Ivvah Kings, Books of First and Second Kohath, Kohathites Psalms, Book of Rabshakeh Salvation Sepharvaim, Sepharvites Shebna Warfare Writer

Topics

Arpad: A Fortified City of Syria, Perhaps Identical with Arvad Assyria: Celebrated For: Extent of Conquests Assyria: Sennacherib Assyria: Sennacherib King of Blasphemed the Lord Ava: A District Near Babylon Diplomacy: Rab-Shakeh, in Trying to Induce Jerusalem to Capitulate by Bombastic Harangue Hena: A City on the Euphrates River Hypocrisy: Rabshakeh Ivah: A District in Babylon Conquered by the Assyrians Jerusalem: Besieged by Sennacherib Prophecies Concerning Israel: The King of Assyria Invades Judah, and Blasphemes the God of Judah Rab-Shakeh : Sent by Sennacherib Against Jerusalem Sennacherib: Invades Judah Sepharvaim: An Assyrian City, from Which the King of Assyria Colonized Samaria Syria: Conquest of by Tiglath-Pileser, King of Assyria War: Enemy Harangued by the General of the Opposing Side

2 Kings 18:34

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