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Carchemish in the Bible Dictionary
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A Babylonian city on the Euphrates, against which the king of Egypt made war
2 Chr 35:20; Isa 10:9; Jer 46:2
20 After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Carchemish by Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him.
2 Chronicles 35:209 Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?
Isaiah 10:92 Against Egypt, against the army of Pharaohnecho king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah.
Jeremiah 46:2
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.
