“Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?”
Is not Calno like Carchemish—the continuation of Assyria's boastful recitation of conquered cities, each destruction fueling the confidence that all resistance is futile. The rhetorical questions are meant to overwhelm by sheer accumulation of evidence of Assyrian invincibility, yet to the reader acquainted with God's sovereignty, they testify to Assyrian blindness. This verse shows how human success can breed the very arrogance that prepares the way for judgment.
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