Crossword-Solution: HAMATH 6 letters, 8 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

The gap between Lebanon and Bargylus made the Aradian territory accessible from the Coelesyrian valley; and there is reason to believe that one of the roads which Egyptian and Assyrian conquest followed in these parts was that which passed along the coast as far as the Eleutherus and then turned eastward and north-eastward to Emesa (Hems) and Hamath.

The name Amathus has been connected with “Hamath;”[517] but there is no reason to suppose that the Hamathites were Phoenicians.

Within twenty years Zimirra joined a revolt, to which Hamath, Arpad, Damascus, and Samaria were likewise parties, and made a desperate attempt to shake off the Assyrian yoke.[14135] The attempt failed, the revolt was crushed, and Zimirra is heard of no more in history.

Nevertheless they continued to worship their olden idols: the Babylonians paid devotion to a hen, the people of Cuthah to a cock, those of Hamath to a ram, the dog and the ass were the gods of the Avvites, and the mule and the horse the gods of the Sepharvites.

Isaiah (xvii., 10) alludes to the portable "Adonis Gardens" which the women used to carry to the bier of the god.] [Footnote 232: The Hamath of Scripture.