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Arpad
(Isa 10:9; Isa 36:19; Isa 37:13), also Arphad, support, a Syrian city near Hamath, along with which it is invariably mentioned (2 Kgs 19:13; 2 Kgs 18:34; Isa 10:9), and Damascus (Jer 49:23). After a siege of three years it fell (B.C. 742) before the Assyrian king Tiglath-pileser II. Now Tell Erfud.
Named in the Bible
4 verses
- 2 Kings 18:34 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?
- 2 Kings 19:13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?
- Isaiah 10:9 Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?
- Jeremiah 49:23 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.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
