Kir of Moab
Kir of Moab is mentioned in the
Al Karak.[3]
According to the second
burnt-offering on the wall of the fortress in the sight of the allied armies. “There was great indignation against Israel: and they departed from him, and returned to their own land(s).” The invaders evacuated the land of Moab, and Mesha achieved the independence of his country (2 Kings 3:20-3:27).[3] Josephus said the kings pitied the need which the Moabite monarch had felt when he offered up his child, and so withdrew.[4]
Kir is also the name of another place in the Hebrew Bible, to which Tiglath-Pileser carried the Aramean captives after he had taken the city of Damascus (2 Kings 16:9; Amos 1:5). It is also the location from which the Arameans are said to have originated from 9:7). Isaiah 22:6 mentions it along with Elam. Some scholars have supposed that Kir is a variant of Cush (Susiana), on the south of Elam.[5]
See also
- Isaiah 15, prophecy against Kir and Moab
References
- ISBN 978-0-529-10651-3.
- ^
Easton, Matthew George (1897). "Kir". Easton's Bible Dictionary (New and revised ed.). T. Nelson and Sons.
- ^ a b Easton, Matthew George (1897). "Kir-haraseth". Easton's Bible Dictionary (New and revised ed.). T. Nelson and Sons.
- ^ Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges on 2 Kings 3, accessed 21 December 2017
- ^ "Kir". King James Bible Dictionary. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
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