Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.
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Gill's Exposition
Concerning Damascus,.... Or, "unto Damascus" (d); or, "against Damascus" (e); that is, "thus saith the Lord"; which is to be repeated from the foregoing instances, Jer 49:1. This is to be understood,…
Barnes' Notes
Though the superscription is confined to Damascus, the prophecy relates to the whole of Aram, called by us Syria, which was divided into two parts, the northern, of which Hamath was the capital, and…
The kingdom of Syria lay north of Canaan, as that of Edom lay south, and thither we must now remove and take a view of the approaching fate of that kingdom, which had been often vexatious to the…
Cambridge Bible
Damascus Damascus was for a long time held by a powerful dynasty of kings, who reduced the other cities under their own sway.
Hamath Hama, on the Orontes, 110 miles N. of Damascus.
Arpad Tell-Erfad,…
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