Carchemish: Fortress of Chemosh, a city on the west bank of the Euphrates
(Jeremiah 46:2; 2 Chronicles 35:20) not, as was once supposed, the Circesium at the
confluence of the Chebar and the Euphrates, but a city considerably
higher up the river, and commanding the ordinary passage of the
Euphrates; probably identical with Hierapolis. It was the capital of
the kingdom of the northern Hittites. The Babylonian army, under
Nebuchadnezzar, the son of Nabopolassar, here met and conquered the
army of Pharaoh-necho, king of Egypt (B.C. 607) It is mentioned in
monuments in B.C. 1600 and down to B.C. 717
