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2 Raja-raja 16:9
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Maka raja Asyur mendengarkan permintaannya dan maju melawan Damsyik, merebutnya dan mengangkut penduduknya tertawan ke Kir, tetapi Rezin dibunuhnya.
Maka diluluskan raja benua Asyur akan kehendak baginda, karena raja benua Asyur itu berangkat lalu menyerang negeri Damsyik, dialahkannya dan dibawanya akan orang isinya tertawan ke Kir dan dibunuhnya Rezin.
Contextual Overview
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
am 3264, bc 740
went up: 2 Chronicles 28:5, Foretold, Amos 1:3-5
Damascus: Heb. Dammesek
Kir: Josephus informs us that this place was in Upper Media; and it is clear that it must be understood of some city or country in the dominions of the king of Assyria. It is highly probable that it was the country on the banks of the river ץסןע, Cyrus, or Kyrus, now called Kur, or Kura; and we find cities called Cyropolis, Cyrena, and Carine, mentioned by writers as lying in these parts, and a part of Media, called Syromedia, as it is thought, from the Syrians who were carried captive thither. Isaiah 22:6, Amos 9:7
slew Rezin: Isaiah 7:16, Isaiah 9:11
Reciprocal: 2 Kings 19:17 - the kings Isaiah 8:4 - the riches of Damascus Isaiah 10:9 - Samaria Isaiah 17:1 - Damascus is Isaiah 17:3 - fortress Isaiah 37:18 - the kings Amos 1:5 - the people Amos 3:12 - in Damascus in a couch
Cross-References
And Sarai sayde vnto Abram: there is wrong done vnto me by thee: I haue geuen my mayde into thy bosome, whiche seyng that she hath conceaued, I am despised in her eyes, the Lorde be iudge betweene thee & me.
But Abram sayde to Sarai: beholde thy mayde is in thy hande, do with her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fledde from the face of her.
If a principall spirite be geuen thee to beare rule, be not negligent then in thine office: for he that can take cure of him selfe, auoydeth great offences.
Submittyng your selues one to another in the feare of God.
[Exhort] seruauntes, to be obedient vnto their owne maisters, and to please them in all thynges, not aunsweryng agayne:
Gill's Notes on the Bible
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 p relates, which belonged to the Assyrian king; see Isaiah 22:6, compared with
2 Kings 21:2, of this captivity Amos had prophesied some time before, Amos 1:5
and slew Rezin; the king of Syria, which also was foretold in the same prophecy.
p Antiqu. l. 9. c. 12. sect. 3.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The submission of Judah, which Ahaz proffered, would be of the utmost importance in connection with any projects that might be entertained of Egyptian conquests. Naturally, Damascus was the first object of attack. It was the head of the confederacy, and it lay nearest to an army descending upon Lower Syria, as all Asiatic armies would descend, from the north. It appears from an inscription of Tiglath-pileser’s, that Rezin met him in the field, was defeated, and slain. An attack upon Pekah followed. Now probably it was that the entire trans-Jordanic region was overrun: and that the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, were carried into captivity 1 Chronicles 5:26. Megiddo and Dor appear also to have been occupied, and the Arabs of the south chastised. Tiglathpileser then returned to Damascus, where a son of Rezin had assumed the crown; he besieged and took the city, and punished Rezin’s son with death. Tiglath-pileser appears by one of his inscriptions to have held a court at Damascus, to which it is probable that the tributary kings of the neighborhood were summoned to pay their tributes and do homage for their kingdoms. Among the tributes brought to him at this time, those of Judaea, Edom, Ammon, Moab, Gaza, Ascalon, and Tyre, are mentioned.
Kir - Kir is mentioned by Amos Amos 9:7 as the country from which the Syrians came. It is joined by Isaiah Isaiah 22:6 with Elam or Elymais. Its position can only be conjectured. Perhaps the word designates a region adjoining Elymais, in the extreme southeastern limits of Assyria.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 2 Kings 16:9. The king of Assyria hearkened unto him — It is said, 2 Chronicles 28:20, that Tilgath-pilneser distressed him, but strengthened him not. Though he came against the Syrians, and took Damascus, and slew Rezin, yet he did not help Ahaz against the Philistines, nor did he lend him any forces to assist against Israel; and he distressed him by taking the royal treasures, and the treasures of the temple, and did him little service for so great a sacrifice. He helped him a little, but distressed him on the whole.
It appears that, about this time, Pekah king of Israel nearly ruined Judea: it is said, 2 Chronicles 28:6, that he slew one hundred thousand valiant men in one day; and that he carried away captive to Samaria two hundred thousand women and children, and much spoil; but, at the instance of the prophet Oded, these were all sent back, fed and clothed, 2 Chronicles 28:8-16.
