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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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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)

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Elam bore the quiver
    with chariots and cavalry,[a]
    and Kir uncovered the shield.(A)

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  1. 22.6 Meaning of Heb uncertain

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)
So I will send a fire on the house of Hazael,
    and it shall devour the strongholds of Ben-hadad.(B)
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. 1.3 Heb cause it to return

11 So the Lord raised adversaries[a] against them
    and stirred up their enemies,(A)

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  1. 9.11 Cn: Heb the adversaries of Rezin

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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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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Aram and Israel Defeat Judah

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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