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 p 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.
p Antiqu. l. 9. c. 12. sect. 3.