the head of] Or, As the head of Syria is Damascus: so Rczin shall still be the head of Damascus; not of Jerusalem, as he hopeth: nor shall Pekah reign there, but in Samaria, as he now doth. vers. 9. Or, Damascus the head of Syria, and Rezin the head of Damascus, together with Ephraim, and the head thereof Pekah, shall be broken all to pieces, &c. threescore and five] Reckoning, as some, from the twenty and second of Uzziah; what time this was foretold by Amos, Amos 1:1. unto the sixt of Hezekiah, what time Shalmanefer took Samaria, and carried the people away captive, 2 King. 18. 10, 11. Or, as others, from the present fourth of Ahaz, unto the twenty third of Manasseh; what time the residue of them were carried away by Esarhaddon, Ezra 4:2. broken,] Or, destroyed. Chap. 14. 25. Jeremiah 48:4. That it be not a people] Heb. from being a people. Jeremiah 48:42. So Chap. 17. 2.