2 Kings 18:1

And it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel that Hezekiah son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.

In Context

2Five and twenty years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Abi, daughter of Zechariah.

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Cross References

2 Kings 15:30And Hoshea son of Elah formed a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.

2 Kings 16:20And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.

2 Kings 18:9And it came to pass in the fourth year of King Hezekiah (this is the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel), that Shalmaneser king of the Assyrians came up against Samaria, and besieged it.

2 Chronicles 28:27And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David; for they did not bring him into the sepulchers of the kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.

2 Chronicles 29:29And when they had done offering it, the king and all that were present bowed, and worshiped.

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 18:1

When the prophet had condemned Ephraim for lies and deceit he comforted himself with this, that Judah yet "ruled with God, and was faithful with the Most Holy," Hos. xi. 12 . It was a very melancholy view which the last chapter gave us of the desolations of Israel; but this chapter shows us the affairs of Judah in a good posture at the same time, that it may appear God has not quite cast off the seed of Abraham, Rom. xi. 1 . Hezekiah is here upon the throne, I. Reforming his kingdom, ver. 1-6 . II. Prospering in… Read the whole commentary →

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