In the fifty-second year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria for twenty years. He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight. He didn’t depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin. In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel Beth Maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria. Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, attacked him, killed him, and reigned in his place, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah. Now the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
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In the fifty-second year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria for twenty years.
He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight. He didn’t depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin.
In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel Beth Maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria.
Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, attacked him, killed him, and reigned in his place, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.
Now the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
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In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned twenty years.
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abel-beth-maachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.
And Hoshea the son of Elah made 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.
And the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
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In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned twenty years.
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD; he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, wherewith he made Israel to sin.
In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abel-beth-maacah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria.
And Hoshea the son of Elah made 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.
Now the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
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- 1 Chronicles 5:26 (v29) So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgath Pilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them…
- 2 Kings 17:6 (v29) In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away to Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and on the…
- Joshua 20:7 (v29) They set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba (also called…
- 1 Kings 15:20 (v29) Ben Hadad listened to king Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel, and struck Ijon, and Dan, and Abel Beth…
- 2 Kings 16:7 (v29) So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and your son. Come up and save me out of the hand of…
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- 2 Kings 17:1 (v30) In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah, Hoshea the son of Elah began to reign in Samaria over Israel for nine years.
- Joshua 11:1 (v29) When Jabin king of Hazor heard of it, he sent to Jobab king of Madon, to the king of Shimron, to the king of Achshaph,
- Joshua 19:37 (v29) Kedesh, Edrei, En Hazor,
- Judges 4:2 (v29) Yahweh sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth…
- 2 Samuel 20:14-15 (v29) He went through all the tribes of Israel to Abel, and to Beth Maacah, and all the Berites. They were gathered together, and went also after…
- 2 Kings 15:23 (v27) In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria for two years.
- 1 Chronicles 5:6 (v29) and Beerah his son, whom Tilgath Pilneser king of Assyria carried away captive. He was prince of the Reubenites.
- 2 Chronicles 16:4 (v29) Ben Hadad listened to king Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel; and they struck Ijon, Dan, Abel Maim, and…
- Isaiah 7:1 (v27) In the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of…
- Isaiah 7:4 (v27) Tell him, ‘Be careful, and keep calm. Don’t be afraid, neither let your heart be faint because of these two tails of smoking torches, for…
- 2 Kings 15:25 (vv27, 30) Pekah the son of Remaliah, his captain, conspired against him and attacked him in Samaria, in the fortress of the king’s house, with Argob…
- Leviticus 26:32 (v29) I will bring the land into desolation, and your enemies that dwell in it will be astonished at it.
- Leviticus 26:38-39 (v29) You will perish among the nations. The land of your enemies will eat you up. Those of you who are left will pine away in their iniquity in…
- Numbers 32:1 (v29) Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock. They saw the land of Jazer, and the land of…
- Numbers 32:40 (v29) Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh; and he lived therein.
- Deuteronomy 3:15 (v29) I gave Gilead to Machir.
- Deuteronomy 4:26-27 (v29) I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from off the land which you go over the Jordan to…
- Deuteronomy 28:25 (v29) Yahweh will cause you to be struck before your enemies. You will go out one way against them, and will flee seven ways before them. You…
- Deuteronomy 28:64-65 (v29) Yahweh will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth. There you will serve other gods which…
- Joshua 11:10 (v29) Joshua turned back at that time, and took Hazor, and struck its king with the sword: for Hazor used to be the head of all those kingdoms.
- Joshua 11:13 (v29) But as for the cities that stood on their mounds, Israel burned none of them, except Hazor only. Joshua burned that.
- Joshua 12:19 (v29) the king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one;
- Joshua 16:6 (v29) The border went out westward at Michmethath on the north. The border turned about eastward to Taanath Shiloh, and passed along it on the…
- 1 Kings 9:11 (v29) (now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and cypress trees, and with gold, according to all his desire), King…
- 2 Kings 13:2 (v28) He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin. He…
- 2 Kings 13:6 (v28) Nevertheless they didn’t depart from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel to sin, but walked in them; and the…
- 2 Kings 15:2 (v27) He was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.
- 2 Kings 15:8 (v27) In the thirty-eighth year of Azariah king of Judah, Zechariah the son of Jeroboam reigned over Israel in Samaria six months.
- 2 Kings 15:9 (v28) He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, as his fathers had done. He didn’t depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with…
- 2 Kings 15:10 (v30) Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and struck him before the people, and killed him, and reigned in his place.
- 2 Kings 15:13 (v27) Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the thirty-ninth year of Uzziah king of Judah, and he reigned for a month in Samaria.
- 2 Kings 15:18 (v28) He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight. He didn’t depart all his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made…
- 2 Kings 15:32-33 (v30) In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel, Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah began to reign. He was twenty-five…
- 2 Kings 15:37 (v27) In those days, Yahweh began to send Rezin the king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah against Judah.
- 2 Kings 16:1 (v30) In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.
- 2 Kings 17:23 (v29) until Yahweh removed Israel out of his sight, as he said by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was carried away out of their own land…
- 2 Kings 21:2 (v28) He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, after the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 28:4-6 (v30) He sacrificed and burned incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree. Therefore Yahweh his God delivered him…
- 2 Chronicles 28:6 (v27) For Pekah the son of Remaliah killed in Judah one hundred twenty thousand in one day, all of them valiant men, because they had forsaken…
- 2 Chronicles 28:16 (v30) At that time king Ahaz sent to the kings of Assyria to help him.
- 2 Chronicles 28:20-21 (v29) Tilgath Pilneser king of Assyria came to him, and gave him trouble, but didn’t strengthen him. For Ahaz took away a portion out of Yahweh’s…
- Isaiah 1:7 (v29) Your country is desolate. Your cities are burned with fire. Strangers devour your land in your presence and it is desolate, as overthrown…
- Isaiah 7:1-9 (v30) In the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of…
- Isaiah 7:9 (v27) The head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son. If you will not believe, surely you shall not be established.’ ”
- Isaiah 7:20 (v29) In that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired in the parts beyond the River, even with the king of Assyria, the head and the…
- Isaiah 8:6 (v30) “Because this people has refused the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah’s son;
- Isaiah 9:1-2 (v29) But there shall be no more gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time, he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land…
- Hosea 10:3 (v30) Surely now they will say, “We have no king; for we don’t fear Yahweh; and the king, what can he do for us?”
- Hosea 10:7 (v30) Samaria and her king float away, like a twig on the water.
- Hosea 10:15 (v30) So Bethel will do to you because of your great wickedness. At daybreak the king of Israel will be destroyed.
- Amos 1:3 (v29) Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Damascus, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have threshed Gilead…
- Amos 1:13 (v29) Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have…
- Matthew 4:15-16 (v29) “The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, toward the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles, the people who sat in darkness…
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On v29 For God stirred up Pul and Tiglath-Pileser against Israel…
For God stirred up Pul and Tiglath-Pileser against Israel for their sins, 1 Chron. 5:26.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv27–31 2Ki 15:27 In the two and fiftieth year of…
2Ki 15:27 In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, [and reigned] twenty years.
Ver. 27. And he reigned twenty years.] Not without many troubles, and at last a violent death. {2Ki 15:30}
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv29–30 Tiglath-pileser, or, Tilgath-pilneser, 2Ch 28:20, called in heathen authors…
Tiglath-pileser, or, Tilgath-pilneser, 2Ch 28:20, called in heathen authors Phulasar, or Phul-assur, the son of that Pul or Phul above, 2Ki 15:19.
Abel-beth-maachah; of which see 1Ki 15:20. Janoah; a city of Ephraim, Jos 16:6. Kedesh and Hazor; two cities of Naphtali, Jos 12:22; 19:36.
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Gilead; all the land beyond Jordan, which was nigher to the Assyrian than the rest.
Galilee, to wit, the Upper Galilee, as may be gathered from the following words, all (or, even all)
the land of Naphtali; which seem to be added by way of explication or restriction, to show what Galilee he meant, even the Upper, in which Naphtali’s lot fell. See Poole "Isa 9:1".
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On v27 And Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried…
And Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father,.... Died, and was buried with the kings of Judah in their sepulchres:
and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead; an account of whose reign we have in the next chapter.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On v30 Twentieth year - The meaning is, that he began…
Twentieth year - The meaning is, that he began his reign in the twentieth year after the beginning of Jotham's reign; or, which is the same thing, in the fourth year of Ahaz, son of Jotham.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On vv29–30 Verse 29. Came Tiglath-pileser] He is supposed to have…
Verse 29. Came Tiglath-pileser] He is supposed to have been the successor of Sardanapalus: Dean Prideaux makes him the same with Arbaces, called by AElian Thilgamus, and by Usher Ninus junior; who, together with Belesis, headed the conspiracy against Sardanapalus, and fixed his seat at Nineveh, the ancient residence of the Assyrian kings; as did Belesis, who is called, in Isa 39:1, Baladan, fix his at Babylon.
Took Ijon] These places belonged to Israel; and were taken by Ben-hadad, king of Syria, when he was in league with Asa, king of Judah. See 1Kg 15:20. They were regained by Jeroboam the second; and now they are taken from Israel once more by Tiglath-pileser. From 1Ch 5:26, we learn that Pul and Tiglath-pileser, kings of Assyria, carried away into captivity the two tribes of Reuben, and Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh; all that belonged to Israel, on the other side of Jordan. These were never restored to Israel.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On vv27, 29, 30 2Ki 15:27. In the two and fiftieth year of…
2Ki 15:27. In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah Pekah began to reign — This is the fifth king that reigned over Israel during the reign of Azariah king of Judah. Pekah, however, reigned much longer than any of the preceding four. For though he also, like Shallum and Menahem, got the kingdom by treason and blood, he kept possession of it twenty years. So long it was before his violent dealing returned upon his own head. And he made himself more noted abroad than any of these usurpers; for even in the latter part of his time, in the reign of Ahaz, (which began in his seventeenth year,) he was a great terror to the kingdom of Judah, as we find, Isa 7:1. Mr. Locke justly observes, that the prophecies of Hosea, Joel, and Amos, come in here, who all prophesied about this time.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain On vv29–31 Tiglath-Pileser is the first among the Assyrian monarchs of…
Tiglath-Pileser is the first among the Assyrian monarchs of Scripture whom we can certainly identify with a king mentioned in the monuments. According to the Assyrian Dr. he reigned from 745 B.C. to 727 B.C.; and the monuments show us this energetic and powerful prince (though, probably, an usurper), building and repairing palaces, levying armies, and carrying on successful wars against Merodach-Baladan in Babylonia, Rezin at Damascus, Hiram at; Tyre, the Medes, the Armenians, the natives of Northern Mesopotamia, and the Arabs who bordered upon Egypt. His Assyrian name, Tiglat-pal-zira, is composed of the elements tiglat, “adoration,” pal, “son,” and zira, a word of uncertain meaning.
Ijon and Abel-beth-maachah - On the position of some of the towns mentioned in this verse see the marginal reference and Jos 19:36. Janoah is not the Janohah of Jos 16:6 (modern Yanun, southeast of Nablous), but a city (Hunin?) near the Sea of Merom. Gilead is, probably, to be limited here to a small district of Peraea, lying to the east of Lake Merom, and in later times known as Gaulanitis (the reading of Septuagint here). If so, we must suppose two expeditions of Tiglath-Pileser against Pekah, the first mentioned here, and the second recorded in Chronicles and Isaiah (see the marginal reference “q;” 2Ki 16:9 note).
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On vv27, 29, 30 Romelia. St. Jerome (ep. 142.) places the birth of…
Romelia. St. Jerome (ep. 142.) places the birth of Romulus in this year, which preceded the famous Olympiads. But Salien differs that event 14 years. (The year before Christ 769.) (Haydock)
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain On vv29–30 PEKAH'S REIGN. (Kg2 15:27-31)
PEKAH'S REIGN. (Kg2 15:27-31)
in the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath-pileser--This monarch, who succeeded Pul on the throne of Assyria, is the only one of all the kings who does not give his genealogy, and is therefore supposed to have been an usurper. His annals have been discovered in the Nimroud mound, describing this expedition into Syria. The places taken are here mentioned as they occurred and were conquered in the progress of an invasion.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On vv27, 29, 30 REIGN OF PEKAH, 2Ki_15:27-31.
REIGN OF PEKAH, 2Ki_15:27-31.
27. Pekah… twenty years — According to Bahr we should here read thirty years. Pekah’s reign is especially noted for its connexion with Syrian and Assyrian wars. After Tiglath-pileser’s first invasion Pekah, and Rezin king of Syria, made a league against Judah, and proposed to reduce Jerusalem, and make a “son of Tabeal” king there in place of Ahaz. 2Ki_16:5; Isa_7:1-2; Isa_7:6. This led Ahaz to seek an alliance with Tiglath-pileser, who immediately marched against Damascus, captured the city, and carried its inhabitants into captivity. 2Ki_16:9.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv27, 29, 30 27–31. Pekah king of Israel for twenty years. Invasion…
27–31. Pekah king of Israel for twenty years. Invasion of Israel by Tiglath-pileser. Pekah is slain by Hoshea (Not in Chronicles)
27. Pekah the son of Remaliah] This king is chiefly remarkable because of the attempts which he made against the kingdom of Judah, and which gave rise to the prophecies recorded in Isaiah 7-9. On the history of these attacks on the sister kingdom, see notes on 2Ki_16:5-9. Isaiah often speaks of Pekah as ‘the son of Remaliah’ only, without mention of his own name, so that we are led to conclude that Remaliah must have been some well-known person.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On v27 (27) Reigned twenty years.—This does not agree with the…
(27-31) THE REIGN OF PEKAH, SON OF REMALIAH, IN SAMARIA.
(27) Reigned twenty years.—This does not agree with the duration assigned to the reign of Jotham (2Ki_15:33), and the year assigned as the beginning of Hoshea’s reign (2Ki_17:1). For, according to 2Ki_15:32, Pekah had reigned about two years when Jotham succeeded in Judah, and Jotham reigned sixteen years; and, according to 2Ki_17:1, Pekah was succeeded by Hoshea in the twelfth year of Jotham’s successor, Ahaz. These data make the duration of Pekah’s reign from twenty-eight to thirty years. We must, therefore, either assume, with Thenius, that “the numeral sign for 30 (ל) has been corrupted into 20 (כ),” or, with Ewald, that “and nine” has been accidentally omitted after “twenty.”
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(29) Tiglath-pileser.—This Assyrian sovereign, who reigned from 745 to 727 B.C. , is called in his own inscriptions, Tukulti- (or Tuklat) ‘abal-Esarra, which Schrader renders, “my trust is Adar”—literally, Trust is the son of the temple of Sarra. (See Note on 1Ch_5:26.) “The idea we get of this king from the remains of these inscriptions corresponds throughout to what we know of him from the Bible. Everywhere he is presented as a powerful warrior-king, who subjugated the entire tract of anterior Asia, from the frontier mountains of Media in the east to the Mediterranean sea in the west, including a part of Cappadocia” (Schrader, K.A.T., p. 247).
Took Ijon, and Abel-beth-maachah . . . all the land of Naphtali.—Comp. 1Ki_15:20.
Janoah.—Not the border-town between Ephraim and Manasseh (Jos_16:6), as the context requires a place in the northernmost part of Israel.
Kedesh.—On the western shore of the waters of Merom (Jos_21:37).
Hazor.—See 1Ki_9:15.
Gilead.—See 2Ki_14:25; 1Ch_5:26. It was no long time since Jeroboam II. had recovered it for Israel. According to Schrader (K.A.T., pp. 254, seq.) the reference of the verse is to Tiglath Pileser’s expedition in B.C. 734, called in the Eponym list an expedition to the land of Pilista (Philistia). With this Schrader connects a fragment of the annals which begins with a list of towns conquered by Tiglath, and ends thus: . . . “the town of Gaal (ad) . . . (A) bil . . . of the upper part of the land of Beth-Omri (i.e., Samaria) . . . in its whole extent I annexed to the territory of Assyria; my prefects the sagans I appointed over them.” The fragment goes on to mention the flight of Hânûn, king of Gaza, to Egypt, and the carrying off of his goods and his gods by the conqueror. It is added, “The land of Beth-Omri . . . the whole body of his men, their goods, to the land of Assyria I led away, Pakaha (i.e., Pekah) their king I slew (so Schrader;? ‘they slew’), and A-u-si-ha (i.e., Hoshea) . . . over them I appointed. Ten (talents of gold, 1,000 talents of silver) 1 received from them.”
(30) Hoshea . . . slew him, and reigned in his stead.—See the inscription of Tiglath Pileser, quoted in the last Note, from which, as Schrader remarks, it is clear that Hoshea only secured his hold on the crown by recognition of the suzerainty of Assyria. The brief record of Kmgs does not mention this; but 2Ki_17:3 represents Hoshea as paying tribute to Shalmaneser IV., the successor of Tiglath.
In the twentieth year of Jotham.—This is a suspicious statement, as not agreeing with 2Ki_15:33, according to which Jotham reigned sixteen years only.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv27–31 Vers. 27-31. REIGN OF PEKAH. The writer is again…
Vers. 27-31. REIGN OF PEKAH. The writer is again exceedingly brief. Pekah"s reign was a remarkable one, and might have furnished much material to the historian. In conjunction with Rezin of Damascus, he made war upon Judaea, defeated Ahaz with great loss, (2Ch_28:6) and laid siege to Jerusalem. (Isa_7:1) Ahaz called in the aid or" Assyria, and Tiglath-pileser made two expeditions into Palestine the one mentioned in ver. 29, and another some years afterwards. In the latter he seems to have had the assistance of Hoshea, who, with his sanction, slew Pekah, and became king. The scanty notices of our author must be supplemented from 2Ch 28; Isa_7:1-9 Isa_8:1-8; and the Assyrian inscriptions. In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah King of Judah; rather, in the thirty-ninth or thirty-eighth year (see the comment on ver. 23). Pekahiah"s "two years" may not have been complete. Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned twenty years. The Assyrian records make this number impossible. Tiglath-pileser"s entire reign lasted only eighteen years, yet it more than covered the entire reign of Pekah. When he first invaded the kingdom of Samaria, Menahem was upon the throne ("Eponym Canon," p. 120, line 29); when he last attacked it, probably in B.C. 730 two years before his death in B.C. 728 he set up Hoshea, or, at any rate, sanctioned his usurpation (ibid., pp. 123, 124, lines 15-18). Pekah"s entire reign must have come in the interval, which is certainly not more than one of fifteen, probably not more than one of ten years.
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The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain On v29 And carried them captive to Assyria.
2Ki_15:29
And carried them captive to Assyria.
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Captivity
A very humbling expression! But this is an aspect of providence we cannot afford, if we be wise men, to ignore. Tiglath-pileser, King of Assyria, came and carried away all these people captive to Assyria--simply carried them. When men have lost their soul, their spirit, their fire, they are simply carted away like so many hundredweights and tons of dead matter. We are not men if we have lost manliness--in other words, if we have lost the indwelling Spirit of God, the force eternal, the seal Divine; we are not then conquered, because to be conquered would imply some measure of calculated and rational resistance--we are simply carried away, borne off, as men might carry dead matter. This is the lot of all nations that forget God: this is the lot of every man whose heart ceases to be the sanctuary of the living Spirit: he is but so much bulk; name him in pounds avoirdupois, report him in so many inches and feet of stature and girth;--he has grieved the Spirit; he has quenched the Spirit; henceforth he is to be driven as one of a herd of dumb cattle; he is to be carried as if he were but so much flesh. (J. Parker, D. D.)
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv27, 29 In the fifty-second year of Azariah king of Judah
In the fifty-second year of Azariah king of Judah
It can be stated clearly that this is the fifty-second year of his reign. AT: "In year 52 of the reign of Azariah king of Judah" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information and Numbers)
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what was evil in the sight of Yahweh
The sight of Yahweh represents Yahweh's judgment. See how you translated this in 2 Kings 3:2. AT: "what was evil in Yahweh's judgment" or "what Yahweh considers to be evil" (See: Metaphor)
He did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat
Departing from sins represents refusing to do those sins. AT: "Zechariah did not refuse to commit the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat" or "He sinned as Jeroboam son of Nebat had sinned" (See: Metaphor)
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv27, 29 15:27 fifty-second year of King Uzziah’s reign: The date…
15:27 fifty-second year of King Uzziah’s reign: The date for Pekah’s accession is the final year of Uzziah’s reign (740 BC). Because of the standing relationship between Tiglath-pileser and Menahem, Pekah confined his influence to Gilead during Menahem’s reign (752–742 BC). With Menahem’s death, Pekahiah made Pekah an army commander. This provided Pekah with a broader base of support and gave him opportunity to seize the throne of Israel in 740 BC.
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