이스라엘 북쪽에 있는 지역이다.
and the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon , toward the sunrise, from Baal Gad under Mount Hermon to the entrance of Hamath ;
Canaan 의 후손중 하나가 거주하던 지역이다.
15 Canaan became the father of Sidon (his firstborn), Heth,
16 17 the Hivites , the Arkites, the Sinites,
18 the Arvadites, the Zemarites , and the Hamathites . Afterward the families of the Canaanites were spread abroad.
Moses 가 열 두 정탐꾼을 보냈을 때 이쪽 까지 살펴보았다.
So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath .
이 지역의 왕
도이 가
David 과 우호적인 관계를 유지했다.
Jeroboam_II 가 이곳을 점령했다.
He restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the sea of the Arabah , according to Yahweh, the God of Israel’s word, which he spoke by his servant Jonah the son of Amittai , the prophet, who was from Gath Hepher.
The king of Assyria brought men from Babylon , from Cuthah, from Avva, and from Hamath and Sepharvaim , and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel ; and they possessed Samaria, and lived in its cities.
앗수르의 민족 혼합정책으로 이 지역의 거주민들이 사마리아로 강제이주되었다.
시드기야 왕이 이곳에서 느부갓네살에게 잡혔다.
But the army of the Chaldeans pursued them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho . When they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath ; and he pronounced judgment on him.
It will happen in that day that the Lord will set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria , from Egypt , from Pathros , from Cush , from Elam, from Shinar , from Hamath , and from the islands of the sea.
“Now these are the names of the tribes: From the north end, beside the way of Hethlon to the entrance of Hamath , Hazar Enan at the border of Damascus , northward beside Hamath (and they shall have their sides east and west), Dan, one portion.