Bilangan 34:8

34:8 from Mount Hor you will draw a line to Lebo Hamath, ¹  and the direction of the border will be to Zedad.

Yosua 13:5

13:5 the territory of Byblos ²  and all Lebanon to the east, from Baal Gad below Mount Hermon to Lebo Hamath. ³ 

Hakim-hakim 3:3

3:3 These were the nations: ⁴  the five lords of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites living in Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal Hermon to Lebo-Hamath. ⁵ 

Hakim-hakim 3:1

3:1 These were the nations the Lord permitted to remain so he could use them to test Israel – he wanted to test all those who had not experienced battle against the Canaanites. ⁶ 

1 Raja-raja 8:65

8:65 At that time Solomon and all Israel with him celebrated a festival before the Lord our God for two entire weeks. This great assembly included people from all over the land, from Lebo Hamath in the north to the Brook of Egypt ⁷  in the south. ⁸ 

1 Raja-raja 8:2

8:2 All the men of Israel assembled before King Solomon during the festival ⁹  in the month Ethanim ¹⁰  (the seventh month).

1 Raja-raja 14:25

14:25 In King Rehoboam’s fifth year, King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem.

1 Raja-raja 14:1

14:1 ¹¹ At that time Jeroboam’s son Abijah became sick.

1 Tawarikh 13:5

13:5 So David assembled all Israel from the Shihor River ¹²  in Egypt to Lebo Hamath, ¹³  to bring the ark of God from Kiriath Jearim.

1 Tawarikh 13:2

13:2 David said to the whole Israelite assembly, “If you so desire and the Lord our God approves, ¹⁴  let’s spread the word ¹⁵  to our brothers who remain in all the regions of Israel, and to the priests and Levites in their cities, ¹⁶  so they may join us.

1 Tawarikh 7:8

7:8 The sons of Beker:

Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alameth. All these were the sons of Beker.

Yeremia 52:9

52:9 They captured him and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah ¹⁷  in the territory of Hamath and he passed sentence on him there.

Yehezkiel 47:16

47:16 Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath, as far as Hazer-hattikon, which is on the border of Hauran.

Yehezkiel 47:20

47:20 On the west side the Great Sea will be the boundary to a point opposite Lebo-hamath. This is the west side.

Amos 6:14

6:14 “Look! I am about to bring ¹⁸  a nation against you, family ¹⁹  of Israel.”

The Lord, the God who commands armies, is speaking.

“They will oppress ²⁰  you all the way from Lebo-Hamath ²¹  to the Stream of the Arabah.” ²² 

[34:8]  ¹ tn Or “to the entrance to Hamath.”

[13:5]  ² tn Heb “and the land of the Gebalites.”

[13:5]  ³ tn Or “the entrance to Hamath.” Most modern translations take the phrase “Lebo Hamath” to be a proper name, but often provide a note with the alternative, where “Hamath” is the proper name and לְבוֹא (lÿvo’) is taken to mean “entrance to.”

[3:3]  ⁴ tn The words “These were the nations,” though not present in the Hebrew text, are supplied in the translation for clarity.

[3:3]  ⁵ tn Or “the entrance to Hamath.”

[3:1]  ⁶ tn Heb “did not know the wars of Canaan.”

[8:65]  ⁷ tn Or “the Wadi of Egypt” (NAB, NIV, NRSV); CEV “the Egyptian Gorge.”

[8:65]  ⁸ tn Heb “Solomon held at that time the festival, and all Israel was with him, a great assembly from Lebo Hamath to the Brook of Egypt, before the Lord our God for seven days and seven days, fourteen days.”

[8:2]  ⁹ sn The festival. This was the Feast of Tabernacles, see Lev 23:34.

[8:2]  ¹⁰ sn The month Ethanim. This would be September-October in modern reckoning.

[14:1]  ¹¹ tc Some mss of the Old Greek lack vv. 1-20.

[13:5]  ¹² tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied for clarity.

[13:5]  sn The Shihor River was a river on the border of Egypt, probably the eastern branch of the Nile.

[13:5]  ¹³ tn Or “the entrance to Hamath.”

[13:2]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “If to you [it is] good and from the Lord our God.”

[13:2]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “let us spread and let us send.” The words “the word” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[13:2]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “in the cities of their pasturelands.”

[52:9]  ¹⁷ sn Riblah was a strategic town on the Orontes River in Syria. It was at a crossing of the major roads between Egypt and Mesopotamia. Pharaoh Necho had earlier received Jehoahaz there and put him in chains (2 Kgs 23:33) prior to taking him captive to Egypt. Nebuchadnezzar had set up his base camp for conducting his campaigns against the Palestinian states there and was now sitting in judgment on prisoners brought to him.

[6:14]  ¹⁸ tn Or “raise up” (KJV, NASB); NIV “stir up.”

[6:14]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “house.”

[6:14]  ²⁰ sn Once again there is irony in the divine judgment. The oppressive nation itself will suffer oppression. The verb “oppress” (לָחַץ, lakhats) in this verse is not the same as that used in 4:1 (עָשַׁק, ’ashaq).

[6:14]  ²¹ tn Or “from the entrance to Hamath.” The Hebrew term לְבוֹא (lÿvo’) can either be translated or considered a part of the place name.

[6:14]  ²² sn Lebo-Hamath refers to the northern border of Israel, the Stream of the Arabah to its southern border. See 2 Kgs 14:25. Through this invader the Lord would reverse the victories and territorial expansion Israel experienced during the reign of Jeroboam II.