2 Kings 16:1-9
seventeenth <07651> [seventeenth.]
Ahaz <0271> [Ahaz.]
do ... pleased <06213 03477> [did not.]
<03212> [he walked.]
son .................... Israelites <01121> [made his son.]
horrible <08441> [according.]
hills <01389> [on the hills.]
Rezin <07526> [A.M. 3262. B.C. 742. Rezin.]
unable ... conquer <03201 03898> [but could not.]
recovered <07725> [recovered.]
Elat ......... there ..... Elat <0359> [Elath. Heb. Eloth.]
Tiglath-pileser <08407> [Tiglath-pileser. Heb. Tilgath-pileser.]
[Tilgath-pilneser. I am thy servant.]
rescue <03467> [and save.]
silver <03701> [the silver.]
royal .......... king <04428> [to the king.]
attacked <05927> [A.M. 3264. B.C. 740. went up.]
[Foretold.]
Damascus <01834> [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 [Kuros,] 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.
executed Rezin <07526 04191> [slew Rezin.]
