"Inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your oarsmen; Your wise men, O Tyre, were in you; They became your pilots.

Beth Arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel,

Then Abijah stood on Mount Zemaraim, which [is] in the mountains of Ephraim, and said, "Hear me, Jeroboam and all Israel:

'from Mount Hor you shall mark out [your border] to the entrance of Hamath; then the direction of the border shall be toward Zedad;

When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had defeated all the army of Hadadezer,

Then the king of Assyria brought [people] from Babylon, Cuthah, Ava, Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed [them] in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel; and they took possession of Samaria and dwelt in its cities.

The men of Babylon made Succoth Benoth, the men of Cuth made Nergal, the men of Hamath made Ashima,

[Is] not Calno like Carchemish? [Is] not Hamath like Arpad? [Is] not Samaria like Damascus?

"Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim (which [is] between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath), to Hazar Hatticon (which [is] on the border of Hauran).

"Thus the boundary shall be from the Sea to Hazar Enan, the border of Damascus; and as for the north, northward, it is the border of Hamath. [This is] the north side.

Also [against] Hamath, [which] borders on it, And [against] Tyre and Sidon, though they are very wise.