And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?

Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: be they better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border?