2 Kings 15 (WK) - Bible Truth Library

reigned."After an anarchy for some years."in the twentieth."In the fourth year of Ahaz, in the twentieth year after Jotham had begun to reign."--Usher.

2 Kings 15:32‑33• ³²{i}In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, Jotham the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, began to reign.{/i}
³³{i}He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok.{/i} (2 Kings 15:32‑33)

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2 Kings 16:1• ¹{i}In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, Ahaz the son of Jotham, king of Judah, began to reign.{/i} (2 Kings 16:1)

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2 Kings 17:1• ¹{i}In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah, Hoshea the son of Elah began to reign in Samaria over Israel, for nine years.{/i} (2 Kings 17:1)

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2 Chron. 28:4‑6,16• ⁴{i}And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.{/i}
⁵{i}Therefore Jehovah his God gave him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also given into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter.{/i}
⁶{i}And{/i} 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 Jehovah God of their fathers.
¹⁶{i}At that time king Ahaz sent to the kings of Assyria to help him.{/i} (2 Chron. 28:4‑6,16)

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Isa. 7:1‑9• ¹And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, [that] Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.
²And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart shook, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest are shaken by the wind.
³And Jehovah said to Isaiah, Go out now to meet Ahaz, thou and Shear-Jashub thy son, at the end of the aqueduct of the upper pool, on the highway of the fuller's field.
⁴And thou shalt say unto him, Take heed and be quiet; fear not, and let not thy heart faint before these two ends (tails) of smoking firebrands, because of the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.
⁵Inasmuch as Syria hath taken evil counsel against thee, Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, saying,
⁶Let us go up against Judah, and harass it, and make a breach therein for us, and set up a king therein, the son of Tabeal;
⁷thus saith the Lord Jehovah, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.
⁸For the head of Syria [is] Damascus, and the head of Damascus [is] Rezin; and within sixty-five years shall Ephraim be broken, so as to be not a people.
⁹And the head of Ephraim [is] Samaria, and the head of Samaria [is] Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established. (Isa. 7:1‑9)

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Isa. 8:6• ⁶Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that flow softly, even rejoicing in Rezin and in Remaliah's son, (Isa. 8:6)

J. N. Darby Translation

And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him and slew him; and he reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.

W. Kelly Translation

And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him and slew him; and he reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.

WK Verse Note

(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)