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Carchemish is a city in the Bible, about 618 km (384 miles) north-east of Jerusalem. The King James Version names it in 2 verses, from Isaiah 10:9 to Jeremiah 46:2.
Fortress of Chemosh, a city on the west bank of the Euphrates (Jer. 46:2; 2 Chr. 35:20), not, as was once supposed, the Circesium at the confluence of the Chebar and the Euphrates, but a city considerably higher up the river, and commanding the ordinary passage of the Euphrates; probably identical with Hierapolis. It was the capital of the kingdom of the northern Hittites. The Babylonian army, under Nebuchadnezzar, the son of Nabopolassar, here met and conquered the army of Pharaoh-necho, king of Egypt (B.C. 607). It is mentioned in monuments in B.C. 1600 and down to B.C. 717.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).
Carchemish is a city about 618 km (384 miles) north-east of Jerusalem. BibleLectio shows it on a painted map of the Bible’s world, with every verse that names it.
The King James Version names Carchemish in 2 verses, in 2 books, from Isaiah 10:9 to Jeremiah 46:2.
The verses that name Carchemish also name Jehoiakim, Josiah and Nebuchadnezzar.