You who rejoice in a thing of nothing, who say, 'Haven't we taken for ourselves horns by our own strength?'
"Hamath is the pass between Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon, the northern limit of Israelite territory.  The Arabah is the deep valley in which the Dead Sea lies."[39]  The most extended borders of Jewish dominion in the days of Solomon were encompassed in these limits; and, although they had for a brief season been restored under Jeroboam II, it was but for a little time.  All was swept away by the Assyrian invasion, except that Jerusalem and the southern kingdom remained about 150 years until they were carried away to Babylon.