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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Carchemish
A major city on the west bank of the Euphrates. For a long time it was a Hittite provincial capital, and later the seat of a Neo-Hittite kingdom of its own. Nebuchadnezzar crushed Pharaoh Necho's army there.
A major city on the west bank of the Euphrates. For a long time it was a Hittite provincial capital, and later the seat of a Neo-Hittite kingdom of its own. Nebuchadnezzar crushed Pharaoh Necho's army there.
Major city on the west bank of the Euphrates, long a Hittite provincial capital and later the seat of an independent Neo-Hittite kingdom after the Hittite empire's collapse. Pharaoh Necho's army was crushed there by Nebuchadnezzar in 605 BC, a battle Jeremiah cites as the turning point that handed regional power to Babylon (Jer. 46:2; 2 Chr. 35:20), while Isaiah names the city among those already conquered by Assyria a century earlier (Isa. 10:9). Excavations begun in 1911 by David Hogarth and continued by Leonard Woolley, with T. E. Lawrence assisting, uncovered Hittite and Luwian hieroglyphic inscriptions confirming the city's long history as recorded in the biblical text.
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- 2 Chronicles 35:20
- Isaiah 10:9
- Jeremiah 46:2
