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Major city-state and region in northern Syria along the Orontes River; listed among the far-flung lands from which God will gather the exiled remnant in the coming restoration
SyriaHistorically Verified
Still exists as modern Hama, Syria. Ancient Hittite inscriptions were found there, and Assyrian and Egyptian records mention it.
open_in_newAncient Syrian city on the Orontes River marking Israel's northern boundary. Mentioned in Numbers, Kings, and the Prophets, it symbolized the outer limits of the Promised Land and appears in Isaiah and Ezekiel as one of the distant nations from which God will gather his scattered people home.
1 Chronicles
The Day the Celebration Stopped
Lebo-Hamath marks the northernmost boundary of the gathering, signaling that David's Ark procession is drawing in the entire extent of Israel's territory.
2 Kings
When Winning Goes to Your Head
Hamath marks the northern boundary of Jeroboam II's territorial restoration — the full extent of Israel's recovered borders, fulfilling Jonah's prophecy through a king who had no personal claim on divine favor.
Jeremiah
The Day the Walls Finally Fell
Everything Jeremiah warned about for forty years finally happens. Jerusalem falls, the king is blinded, and the city burns to the ground. But in the middle of the devastation, God quietly keeps his promises — protecting his prophet and rewarding the one man who showed courage when it counted.
Numbers
Same Land, Two Completely Different Stories
God tells Moses to send twelve scouts into Canaan — one leader from each tribe. They come back carrying fruit so abundant it takes two men to haul it. But the report splits right down the middle, and the difference comes down to one thing: what they believed about the God who brought them there.
Zechariah
The King Nobody Expected
God sweeps through the great fortress-cities of the ancient Near East and dismantles them one by one. Then, right in the middle of all that judgment, he makes a promise that would take five hundred years to fulfill — a king is coming, and he's not riding a war horse.