11Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies together;
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The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. …
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.
Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus? …
For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.
In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abelbethmaachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-21)Here are terrible threatenings, which are directed primarily against Israel, the kingdom of the ten tribes, Ephraim and Samaria, the ruin of which is here foretold, with all the woeful confusions that were the prefaces to that ruin, all which came to pass within a few years after; but they look further, to all the enemies of the throne and kingdom of Christ the Son of David, and read the doom of a…
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