2 Chronicles 28:6

For Pekah, the son of Remaliah, in one day put to death a hundred and twenty thousand men of Judah, all of them good fighting-men; because they had given up the Lord, the God of their fathers.

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In The King James Version

For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, which were all valiant men; because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers.

In Context

5So the Lord his God gave him up into the hands of the king of Aram; and they overcame him, and took away a great number of his people as prisoners to Damascus. Then he was given into the hands of the king of Israel, who sent great destruction on him.

7And Zichri, a great fighting-man of Ephraim, put to death Maaseiah, the king's son, and Azrikam, the controller of his house, and Elkanah, who was second in authority to the king.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:15But if you do not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and take care to do all his orders and his laws which I give you today, then all these curses will come on you and overtake you:

Deuteronomy 29:24Truly all the nations will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land? what is the reason for this great and burning wrath?

Deuteronomy 32:20And he said, My face will be veiled from them, I will see what their end will be: for they are an uncontrolled generation, children in whom is no faith.

Joshua 24:20If you are turned away from the Lord and become the servants of strange gods, then turning against you he will do you evil, cutting you off, after he has done you good.

2 Kings 15:37In those days the Lord first sent against Judah, Rezin, the king of Aram, and Pekah, the son of Remaliah.

2 Chronicles 13:17And Abijah and his people put them to death with great destruction: five hundred thousand of the best of Israel were put to the sword.

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 28:2-6

The Wickedness of Ahaz. ( b. c. 738.) 1 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did not that which was right in the sight of the Lord , like David his father: 2 For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for Baalim. 3 Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel. 4 He… Read the whole commentary →

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