Northern Aram, on the Orontes (Syria) · Old Testament · 32 verses
Hamath was a city and kingdom on the Orontes River in northern Syria. Its territory marked a northern boundary of the promised land. The name appears in Numbers, Joshua, Judges and 10 more in the King James text.
About Hamath
Hamath was a city and kingdom on the Orontes River in northern Syria. Its territory marked a northern boundary of the promised land.
Its place in the story
The entrance of Hamath is repeatedly given as the ideal northern border of Israel. Hamath had dealings with David and later fell under Assyrian power. People from Hamath were resettled in Samaria after Israel's exile.
Hamath in Scripture (KJV)
“So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.”
“Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baalhermon unto the entering in of Hamath.”
“And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with him, a great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt, before the LORD our God, seven days and seven days, even fourteen days.”
“He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath unto the sea of the plain, according to the word of the LORD God of Israel, which he spake by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, which was of Gathhepher.”
“Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath, which belonged to Judah, for Israel, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?”
Hamath was a city and kingdom on the Orontes River in northern Syria. Its territory marked a northern boundary of the promised land. The name appears in Numbers, Joshua, Judges and 10 more in the King James text.
What happened at Hamath?
The entrance of Hamath is repeatedly given as the ideal northern border of Israel. Hamath had dealings with David and later fell under Assyrian power. People from Hamath were resettled in Samaria after Israel's exile.