The king of Assyria listened to him; and the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried its people captive to Kir, and killed Rezin.

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    The king of Assyria listened to him; and the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried its people captive to Kir, and killed Rezin.

  • KJV King James Version

    And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him: for the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried the people of it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him; and the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried the people of it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin.

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Cross-references (7)

Passages linked to 2 Kings 16:9 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Isaiah 22:6 Elam carried his quiver, with chariots of men and horsemen; and Kir uncovered the shield.
  • Amos 9:7 Are you not like the children of the Ethiopians to me, children of Israel?” says Yahweh. “Haven’t I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?
  • Amos 1:3-5 Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Damascus, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron; but I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, and it will devour the palaces of Ben Hadad. I will break the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the valley of Aven, and him who holds the scepter from the house of Eden; and the people of Syria shall go into captivity to Kir,” says Yahweh.
  • 2 Chronicles 28:5 Therefore Yahweh his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria. They struck him, and carried away from him a great multitude of captives, and brought them to Damascus. He was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who struck him with a great slaughter.
  • 2 Chronicles 28:21 For Ahaz took away a portion out of Yahweh’s house, and out of the house of the king and of the princes, and gave it to the king of Assyria; but it didn’t help him.
  • Isaiah 7:16 For before the child knows to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land whose two kings you abhor shall be forsaken.
  • Isaiah 9:11 Therefore Yahweh will set up on high against him the adversaries of Rezin, and will stir up his enemies,

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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Ki 16:9 And the king of Assyria hearkened unto…

2Ki 16:9 And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him: for the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried [the people of] it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin.

Ver. 9. And carried the people of it captive to Kir.] According to Amo 1:5. This Kir some will have to be that Cyrene mentioned in Act 2:10; others, Syromedia, which was so called from these Syrians translated thither, and Kir, that is a wall, because walled about, as it were, by the mountain Zagrus.

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And slew Rezin.] And so the event of this war proved answerable to the king of Assyria’s ambition, to the king of Syria’s wickedness, and to the king of Judah’s desires; who yet enjoyed it not long; for he was afterwards distressed by the same king of Assyria who now relieved him. {2Ch 28:20} So little is there got at length by such carnal combinations. It is better to trust in the Lord, &c. And here was an end of the kingdom of Damascus, as also of Hamath, {Amo 6:2} of Arpad, {Jer 49:23 Isa 10:9; Isa 36:19; Isa 37:12-13} and other places not a few; all which were swallowed up in the greatness of the Assyrian empire, as itself is now - together with the most glorious empire of the Greeks, the renowned kingdoms of Macedonia, Peloponnesus, Epirus, Bulgaria, Egypt, Judea, &c. - swallowed up in the greatness of the Turkish empire. As for this kingdom of Damascus, it had continued for ten generations, as Nicolaus Damascenus in Josephus {a} affirmeth; and as it began in Rezon, {1Ki 11:23-24} so in Rezin it ended. The like is observed of the Greek empire: which as it began in Constantine the Great, so it determined in Constantine Paleologus.

{a} Lib. vii., Antiq., cap. 6.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Against Damascus, the metropolis of the Syrians, and the…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglathpileser…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 9. The king of Assyria hearkened unto him]…
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain 2Ki 16:9. And carried the people of it captive…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain The submission of Judah, which Ahaz proffered, would be…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Cyrene, not in Egypt, where he had no power,…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 9. Went up against Damascus — Which was the…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 9. the king of Assyria went up against Damascus]…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (9) Went up against Damascus, and took it.—We learn…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And the King of Assyria hearkened unto him. Overtures…
Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 16:9 The location of Kir is unknown; it was…

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