2 Kings 16:9

And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him ,.... Complied with his request:

for the king of Syria went up against Damascus, and took it ; the metropolis of the kingdom of Syria, and so made a powerful diversion in favour of the king of Judah:

and carried the people of it captive to Kir ; not Cyrene, as the Vulgate Latin version, a country belonging to Egypt, which the king of Assyria had no power over; but a place in upper Media, as Josephus F16 Antiqu. l. 9. c. 12. sect. 3. relates, which belonged to the Assyrian king; see Isaiah 22:6 , compared with 2 Kings 21:2 , of this captivity Amos had prophesied some time before, Amos 1:5 .

and slew Rezin ; the king of Syria, which also was foretold in the same prophecy.