Calneh

Calneh turns up as a name on an ancient map. Genesis 10:10 lists it among the first cities of Nimrod’s kingdom in the land of Shinar, and Isaiah 10:9 mentions Calno, which many take to be the same place. Amos 6:2 uses it as a lesson for the proud: “Pass ye unto Calneh, and see,” then look at Hamath and Gath, great cities that did not last. Ezekiel 27:23 names a trading town, Canneh, in a similar list. The verses give little more than names, but Amos shows why they were kept: no city is too strong to fall.

4 verses

Genesis

Genesis 10:10

And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

Isaiah

Isaiah 10:9

Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?

Ezekiel

Ezekiel 27:23

Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad, were thy merchants.

Amos

Amos 6:2

Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: be they better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border?

From Easton's Bible Dictionary

Matthew George Easton, 1897

Fort, one of the four cities founded by Nimrod (Gen. 10:10). It is the modern Niffer, a lofty mound of earth and rubbish situated in the marshes on the left, i.e., the east, bank of the Euphrates, but 30 miles distant from its present course, and about 60 miles south-south-east from Babylon. It is mentioned as one of the towns with which Tyre carried on trade. It was finally taken and probably destroyed by one of the Assyrian kings (Amos 6:2). It is called Calno (Isa. 10:9) and Canneh (Ezek. 27:23).