Biblical places
Carchemish
Where Babylon's Nebuchadnezzar decisively defeated the Egyptian army in 605 BC (Jeremiah 46:2), a victory that established Babylon as the new power in the ancient Near East. Straddles the modern Turkey-Syria border along the Euphrates.
Sources and location confidence
- Location confidence
- Very High
- Karkamış / Jerablus
- 36.8297, 38.0150
A well-known site since the Hittite era, with its location confirmed through excavation.
Related Bible passages
These are selected indexed references, not an exhaustive list of every mention in the Bible.
2 Chronicles 35:20
After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Carchemish by Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him.
Isaiah 10:9
Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?
Jeremiah 46:2
Against Egypt, against the army of Pharaohnecho king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah.