In his pride, the Assyrian looks over his conquests. Carchemish (Fort of Chemosh) was the chief city of the Hittites from 1100 to 850 B.C. It was there that Pharaoh Necho was defeated in 605 B.C., five years before Lehi left Jerusalem. See 2 Chron. 25:20.
The Assyrian king is represented as saying, Since I have made myself the master of kingdoms, the images of which were more powerful than those of Jerusalem and Samaria, why should I not gain possession of Jerusalem and her idols?