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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Kir
Amos says God brought the Arameans from Kir the way he brought Israel out of Egypt, and he warns that Damascus will be sent back there. Tiglath-pileser III did exactly that in 732 BC, and his own annals record it. Isaiah's Kir, set beside Elam in a scene of soldiers arming, may or may not be the same place.
Amos says God brought the Arameans from Kir the way he brought Israel out of Egypt, and he warns that Damascus will be sent back there. Tiglath-pileser III did exactly that in 732 BC, and his own annals record it. Isaiah's Kir, set beside Elam in a scene of soldiers arming, may or may not be the same place.
Two different places share this name. Kir of Moab, one of Moab's two chief cities alongside Ar, appears in Isaiah's oracle against Moab and is usually identified with Kerak, a fortress town east of the Dead Sea (Isa. 15:1). The other Kir was the original homeland of the Arameans; Amos says God brought Aram from Kir just as he brought Israel from Egypt (Amos 9:7), and elsewhere warns that the Arameans of Damascus would be sent back there in judgment (Amos 1:5), a threat fulfilled when Tiglath-pileser III deported Damascus's population after conquering it in 732 BC, an episode recorded in his own Assyrian annals. Isaiah pairs a Kir with Elam in a separate scene of soldiers preparing for battle (Isa. 22:6), though scholars debate whether it is the same place.
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- Isaiah 22:6
- Amos 9:7
