A.M.

3264 B.C.

740
went up

2 Chronicles 28:5 Why the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him...

Foretold

Amos 1:3-5 Thus said the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof...

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 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.

Isaiah 22:6 And Elam bore the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.

Amos 9:7 Are you not as children of the Ethiopians to me, O children of Israel? said the LORD...

slew Rezin

Isaiah 7:16 For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that you abhor shall be forsaken of both her kings.

Isaiah 9:11 Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies together;