2 Kings 15:37

In those days began the Lord to send against Judah Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekach the son of Remalyahu.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

In those days the LORD began to send against Judah Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah.

In Context

36Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah.

38And Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Achaz his son became king in his stead.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 3:12On that day will I fulfill on 'Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house: I will begin and finish.

2 Kings 15:27In the fifty-second year of 'Azaryah the king of Judah became Pekach the son of Remalyahu king over Israel in Samaria, [for] twenty years.

2 Chronicles 28:6And Pekach the son of Remalyahu slew in Judah one hundred and twenty thousand in one day, all being valiant men; because they had forsaken the Lord, the God of their fathers.

Isaiah 7:1And it came to pass in the days of Achaz the son of Jotham, the son of 'Uzziyahu, the king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekach the son of Remalyahu, the king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it; but were not able to make an attack upon it.

Isaiah 10:5Woe over Asshur, the rod of my anger; and a staff is in their hand my indignation.

Jeremiah 16:16Behold, I will send for many fishermen, saith the Lord, and they shall fish them; and after that will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 15:33-38

The Reign of Jotham. ( b. c. 742.) 32 In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign. 33 Five and twenty years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok. 34 And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord : he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done. 35 Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned… Read the whole commentary →

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