Calneh

How Nave’s arranged it

• Also called CANNEH and CALNO, a city of AssyriaGenesis 10:10Isaiah 10:9Ezekiel 27:23Amos 6:2

The passages, in Bible order (4)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 4 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Genesis 10:10

   His kingdom began in Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 10:102 voices

   “The beginning of his kingdom was Babel - Some way or other, he got into power: and so laid the foundations of a monarchy which was afterwards a head of gold.

   “(Verse 10.) And it was, he said, the head of his kingdom, Babel and Arach, and Achad, and Chalanne in the land of Sennaar. Nimrod, the son of Chus, first seized an unprecedented tyranny among the people, and he reigned in Babylon, which was named after him because the tower of the builders' confusion occurred there. For Babel means confusion. However, he also reigned in Arach, which is Edessa, and in Achad, which is now called Nisibis: and in Chalanne, which later, under a different name, was called Seleucia by King Seleucus, or certainly what is now called Ktesiphon.

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2. Isaiah 10:9

   “Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?

   ›Commentary on Isaiah 10:92 voices

   “Is not . . . as--Was there any one of these cities able to withstand me? So Rab-shakeh vaunts (Isa 36:19). Calno--Calneh, built by Nimrod (Ge 10:10), once his capital, on the Tigris.

   “Second, the subjugation of cities: is not Calano as Charcamis, below: for of a truth, O Lord, the kings of the Assyrians have laid waste lands, and their countries (Isa 37:18).

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3. Ezekiel 27:23

   Haran, Canneh, and Eden traded with you, and so did the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad.

   ›Commentary on Ezekiel 27:232 voices

   “Canneh--Calneh, an Assyrian city on the Tigris; the Ctesiphon of the Greeks (Ge 10:10). Eden--probably a region in Babylonia (see Ge 2:8). Chilmad--a compound; the place designated by PTOLEMY "Gaala of Media." The Chaldee version interprets it of Media.

   “Haran - In Mesopotamia, where Abraham dwelt. Canneh - This is supposed to be the same with Calneh, Gen. x, 10, afterwards Ctesiphon, a pleasant city on Tigris.

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4. Amos 6:2

   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?

   ›Commentary on Amos 6:22 voices

   “Pass ye unto Calneh, and see,.... What is become of that city, which was in the land of Shinar, an ancient city, as early as the days of Nimrod, and built by him, and was with others the beginning of his kingdom, Gen 10:10; it belonged to Babylon, and is by Jarchi here interpreted by it, being put for Babel, as he supposes.

   “Pass ye unto Calneh - This is, says Calmet, the Ctesiphon on the river Tigris. Hamath - The same as Emesa. Hamath was a city on the Orontes, in Syria. Gath - A well-known town, and head of one of the five seignories of the Philistines. Be they better - You have no more reason to expect exemption from the consequences of your sins than they had. They have been punished; so shall you. Why then will ye trust in their gods, that could not save their own cities?

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