Kir (land)

Kir ( Hebrew קִיר) is the country of origin of the Arameans according to Am 9.7  EU :

Did I not bring Israel up from the land of Egypt, the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Arameans from Kir?

H. Gese (1987) attributes this passage to a later revision.

After 2 Kgs 16.9  EU deported Tiglath-pileser III. (734) the population from Aram to Kir: " And the king of Assur went up against Damascus and took it and took its inhabitants away to Kir; but Rezin (the king) he killed. " The Arameans therefore returned to their place of origin back. However, this may only be an echo of Am 1,5  EU , where the prophet threatens, "... the people of Aram shall be led away to Kir, says the Lord."

location

Another place at Isa 22,6  EU , in which Kir is mentioned together with Elam , has led to the fact that Kir is commonly located in the south of Babylonia . Assyrian sources are completely absent.

literature

• Volkmar Fritz: The foreign races of Amos. in: Vetus Testamentum. Brill, Cologne / Leiden 37.1987,1,26-38, ISSN  0042-4935 .
• H. Gese: The Amos Problem 9.7. In: According to the text. Essays u. Contribution to the hermeneutics of the Old Testament . Festschrift for Ernst Würthwein. Göttingen 1987, 33-39, ISBN 3-525-53564-3 .
• Klaus Koenen: Kir . In: Michaela Bauks, Klaus Koenen, Stefan Alkier (eds.): The scientific Bibellexikon im Internet (WiBiLex), Stuttgart 2006 ff., Access date: July 4, 2019.