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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.
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.