After that the heavenly Father spoke and he said, 'Hamath' and we find the word in Strong's Hebrew spelt 'Chamath' and its a place name in Syria. 'Hamath' means 'fortress' (fort) and in most recent decades it has been home to the 'Muslim Brotherhood'. It is written that it was a prosperous area in 1500BC.
It is known that the ancient Greeks referred to it as 'Emathous'.
http://biblehub.com/hebrew/2574.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hama
A Byzantine historian also came from that location, John of Epiphania.
Hamath is mentioned in Zechariah 9. The prophecy predicted that 'the word of the LORD is against the land of Hadrak and will come to rest on Damascus-for the eyes of all people and all tribes of Israel are on the LORD-and on Hamath too, which borders on it'.
http://bibleatlas.org/hadrach.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gPsWoS9bDM
They think that they can bring people from Syria and house them in the English countryside and everything will be OK.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSh77e1W_sY
140 in Syria impacted upon.
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