2 Kings 16:9
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9 The king of Assyria listened to him; the king of Assyria marched up against Damascus and took it, carrying its people captive to Kir; then he killed Rezin.(A)
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Amos 9:7
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7 Are you not like the Cushites to me,
O people of Israel? says the Lord.
Did I not bring Israel up from the land of Egypt
and the Philistines from Caphtor and the Arameans from Kir?(A)
Isaiah 22:6
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- 22.6 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Amos 1:3-5
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3 Thus says the Lord:
For three transgressions of Damascus,
and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,[a]
because they have threshed Gilead
with threshing sledges of iron.(A)
4 So I will send a fire on the house of Hazael,
and it shall devour the strongholds of Ben-hadad.(B)
5 I will break the gate bars of Damascus
and cut off the inhabitants from the Valley of Aven
and the one who holds the scepter from Beth-eden,
and the people of Aram shall go into exile to Kir,
says the Lord.(C)
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- 1.3 Heb cause it to return
Isaiah 9:11
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- 9.11 Cn: Heb the adversaries of Rezin
Isaiah 7:16
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16 For before the child knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land before whose two kings you are in dread will be deserted.(A)
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2 Chronicles 28:21
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21 For Ahaz plundered the house of the Lord and the houses of the king and of the officials and gave tribute to the king of Assyria, but it did not help him.
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2 Chronicles 28:5
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Aram and Israel Defeat Judah
5 Therefore the Lord his God gave him into the hand of the king of Aram, who defeated him and took captive a great number of his people and brought them to Damascus. He was also given into the hand of the king of Israel, who defeated him with great slaughter.(A)
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