Arpad was a city of the ancient Near East named in Nephi’s quotation of Isaiah, where the Assyrian king boasts of his conquests and compares the cities he has taken: “Is not Calno as Carchemish? Is not Hamath as Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus?” (2 Nephi 20:9). The king lists Arpad among cities already fallen to argue that Jerusalem will share their fate, as Samaria did (2 Nephi 20:10-11). Arpad fell to the Assyrian king Tiglath-pileser III in 742 B.C. after a prolonged siege.