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2 Kings 16:9

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him,.... Complied with his request:for the king of Syria went up against Damascus, and took it; the metropolis of the kingdom of Syria, and so made a powerful diversion in favour of the king of Judah:and carried the people of it captive to Kir; not Cyrene, as the Vulgate Latin version, a country belonging to Egypt, which the king of Assyria had no power over; but a place in upper Media, as Josephus relates, which belonged to the Assyrian king; see Isa 22:6, compared with 2Ki 21:2, of this captivity Amos had prophesied some time before, Am 1:5and slew Rezin; the king of Syria, which also was foretold in the same prophecy.

Antiqu. l. 9. c. 12. sect.

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