Amos 6:2

Pass ye unto Calneh, a city in Babylonia, on the river Tigris, and see, and from thence go ye to Hamath, the great, a district and city of Syria beyond the extreme northern boundary of Canaan; then go down. to Gath of the Philistines, so that they would visit some of the most powerful of the neighboring nations. Be they better than these kingdoms? that is, these two kingdoms were in no better condition than Judah and Israel, or their border greater than your border? Israel thus ranking at that time with the first of the nations, unexcelled by any of their heathen neighbors. But for this very fact, on account of their reliance upon their prosperity and power, the Lord pronounces a woe upon them.