In those days, Yahweh began to send Rezin the king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah against Judah.
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In those days, Yahweh began to send Rezin the king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah against Judah.
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In those days the LORD began to send against Judah Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah.
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In those days the LORD began to send against Judah Rezin the king of Aram, and Pekah the son of Remaliah.
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Passages linked to 2 Kings 15:37 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 2 Kings 16:5 Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to wage war. They besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him.
- Isaiah 7:1 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 Israel, went up to Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.
- Deuteronomy 28:48 therefore you will serve your enemies whom Yahweh sends against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in lack of all things. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.
- 1 Samuel 3:12 In that day I will perform against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from the beginning even to the end.
- 2 Kings 10:32 In those days Yahweh began to cut away parts of Israel; and Hazael struck them in all the borders of Israel;
- 2 Chronicles 28:6 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 Yahweh, the God of their fathers.
- Psalms 78:49 He threw on them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, indignation, and trouble, and a band of angels of evil.
- Isaiah 7:8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. Within sixty-five years Ephraim shall be broken in pieces, so that it shall not be a people.
- Isaiah 10:5-7 Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation! I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me I will give him a command to take the plunder and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. However he doesn’t mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations.
- Isaiah 38:1-22 In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death. Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Set your house in order, for you will die, and not live.’ ” Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” Then Hezekiah wept bitterly. Then Yahweh’s word came to Isaiah, saying, “Go, and tell Hezekiah, ‘Yahweh, the God of David your father, says, “I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life. I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city. This shall be the sign to you from Yahweh, that Yahweh will do this thing that he has spoken. Behold, I will cause the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down on the sundial of Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps.” ’ ” So the sun returned ten steps on the sundial on which it had gone down. The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and had recovered of his sickness. I said, “In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years.” I said, “I won’t see Yah, Yah in the land of the living. I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world. My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night you will make an end of me. I waited patiently until morning. He breaks all my bones like a lion. From day even to night you will make an end of me. I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove. My eyes weaken looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed. Be my security.” What will I say? He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it. I will walk carefully all my years because of the anguish of my soul. Lord, men live by these things; and my spirit finds life in all of them: you restore me, and cause me to live. Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back. For Sheol can’t praise you. Death can’t celebrate you. Those who go down into the pit can’t hope for your truth. The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do today. The father shall make known your truth to the children. Yahweh will save me. Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments all the days of our life in Yahweh’s house. Now Isaiah had said, “Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a poultice on the boil, and he shall recover.” Hezekiah also had said, “What is the sign that I will go up to Yahweh’s house?”
- Jeremiah 16:16 “Behold, I will send for many fishermen,” says Yahweh, “and they will fish them up. Afterward I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain, from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.
- Jeremiah 25:29 For, behold, I begin to work evil at the city which is called by my name; and should you be utterly unpunished? You will not be unpunished; for I will call for a sword on all the inhabitants of the earth, says Yahweh of Armies.” ’
- Jeremiah 43:10 and tell them, Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne on these stones that I have hidden; and he will spread his royal pavilion over them.
- Hosea 5:12-13 Therefore I am to Ephraim like a moth, and to the house of Judah like rottenness. “When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, Then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to king Jareb: but he is not able to heal you, neither will he cure you of your wound.
- Luke 21:28 But when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is near.”
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Which slew of Judah in one day sixscore thousand…
Which slew of Judah in one day sixscore thousand fighting men, 2 Chron. 28:6, because they had forsaken the true God.
After the death of Jotham.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Ki 15:37 In those days the LORD began to…
2Ki 15:37 In those days the LORD began to send against Judah Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah.
Ver. 37. In those days.] But not till good Jotham was laid up in peace.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain In those days i.e. towards the end of Jotham’s…
In those days i.e. towards the end of Jotham’s reign.
The Lord began to send, i.e. disposed their hearts to unite their forces together, and to make preparation for a war against Judah; which yet they did not execute till Ahaz’s reign.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 37. In those days the Lord began to…
Verse 37. In those days the Lord began to send] It was about this time that the Assyrian wars, so ruinous to the Jews, began; but it was in the following reigns that they arrived at their highest pitch of disaster to those unfaithful and unfortunate people. However much we may blame the Jews for their disobedience and obstinacy, yet we cannot help feeling for them under their severe afflictions. Grievously they have sinned, and grievously have they suffered for it. And if they be still objects of God's judgments, there is revelation to believe that they will yet be objects of God's goodness. Many think the signs of the times are favourable to this ingathering; but there is no evidence among the people themselves that the day of their redemption is at hand. They do not humble themselves; they do not seek the Lord.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain 2Ki 15:37. In those days — That is, toward…
2Ki 15:37. In those days — That is, toward the end of Jotham’s reign; the Lord began to send against Judah, Rezin and Pekah — As he bid Shimei curse David, when he gave him an opportunity of doing it, without fear of punishment. Wicked men are the sword, the rod in God’s hand, which he makes use of as he pleases, to serve his own righteous counsels, though they be unrighteous in their intentions. This storm was gathered in the reign of pious Jotham, but he came to his grave in peace, and it fell upon his degenerate son Ahaz, whose heart, upon notice of it, was moved, as were the hearts of the people, as the trees of the wood are moved by the wind, Isa 7:2.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain The recent invasions of Pul and Tiglath-Pileser had effectually…
The recent invasions of Pul and Tiglath-Pileser had effectually alarmed Pekah and Rezin, and had induced them to put aside the traditional jealousies which naturally kept them apart, and to make a league offensive and defensive. Into this league they were anxious that Judaea should enter; but they distrusted the house of David, which had been so long hostile both to Damascus and to Samaria. They consequently formed the design of transferring the Jewish crown to a certain Ben-Tabeal Isa 7:6, probably a Jewish noble, perhaps a refugee at one of their courts, whom they could trust to join heartily in their schemes (2Ki 16:5 note).
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Began. Achaz was much more infested by these princes.
Began. Achaz was much more infested by these princes.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain the Lord began to send against Judah Rezin the…
the Lord began to send against Judah Rezin the king of Syria, &c.--This is the first intimation of the hostile feelings of the kings of Israel and Syria, to Judah, which led them to form an alliance and make joint preparations for war. [See on Ch2 27:5.] However, war was not actually waged till the reign of Ahaz.
Next: 2 Kings Chapter 16
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain REIGN OF JOTHAM, KING OF JUDAH, 2Ki_15:32-38.
REIGN OF JOTHAM, KING OF JUDAH, 2Ki_15:32-38.
37. In those days — Evidently near the close of Jotham’s reign.
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Began to send… Rezin… and Pekah — That is, the Syro-Israelitish war against Judah only began in Jotham’s day. It belonged rather to the reign of Ahaz. See notes on chap. 2Ki_16:5-9.
The reign of Jotham is more fully detailed in 2 Chronicles 27, where see notes.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 37. In those days] In the days of Jotham…
37. In those days] In the days of Jotham the confederacy between Israel and Syria against Judah was formed, though the effects were not felt to the full till the days of Jotham’s son Ahaz. In Isaiah 7 we find that Rezin king of Syria, and Pekah king of Israel, had come up against Jerusalem to fight against it, and were minded to set up a king in Judah of their own choosing, who is there spoken of as ‘the son of Tabeel’. At that time for the consolation and encouragement of Ahaz the oracle concerning ‘Immanuel’ was sent to him through Isaiah.
the Lord began to send] Though He began to send enemies upon Judah, yet the Lord did not, as Isaiah’s prophecy shews us, leave His people without hope, but in the midst of their chastisement He was thinking upon mercy, and spake by the mouth of the prophet concerning that greatest mercy, the sending of His Son.
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Rezin the king of Syria] The name of this king appears several times in the Assyrian records. His country had before this time been made tributary to Assyria. The policy of Rezin appears not only to have embraced a conquest of Judah in alliance with Pekah, but also, after making himself more powerful in that way, the shaking off the yoke of Assyria. For this reason the Assyrian power was the more easily induced to help Ahaz in resisting Israel and Syria. The history of that help is given in the next chapter where the acts of Pekah against Judah are more fully dwelt upon.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain In those days the Lord began to send against…
In those days the Lord began to send against Judah Resin the King of Syria. Rezin"s name occurs in the Assyrian inscriptions early in the reign of Tigiath-pileser, probably in the year B.C. 743. At that time he pays to the Assyrians a heavy tribute, consisting of eighteen talents of gold, three hundred talents of silver, two hundred talents of copper, and twenty talents of spices. Subsequently, about the year B.C. 734, he is found in revolt. His alliance with Pekah, here implied, is directly stated by Isa_7:2. Begun in Jotham"s reign, it continued, and came to a head, in the reign of Ahaz. (see 2Ki_16:5 and Isa_7:1-9 Isa_8:6) And Pekah the son of Remaliah. Pekah and Rezin intended to establish on the Jewish throne a certain Ben-Tabeal, (Isa_7:6) a creature of their own, with whose aid they thought to offer an effectual resistance to Assyria.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 In those days
In those days
This refers to a time period. What time period this refers to can be stated clearly. AT: "During that time" or "While Jotham was king of Judah" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)
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Rezin
This is a man's name. (See: How to Translate Names)
Pekah ... Remaliah
These are men's names. Pekah was the king of Israel. See how you translated them in 2 Kings 15:37. (See: How to Translate Names)
Jotham slept with his ancestors
Sleeping represents dying. AT: "Jotham died as his ancestors had" or "Like his ancestors, Jotham died" (See: Metaphor and Euphemism)
became king in his place
The phrase "in his place" is a metaphor meaning "instead of him." AT: "became king instead of Jotham" (See: Metaphor)
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Aram
city of David
Ahaz
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 15:37 Rezin . . . Pekah: See 16:5.
15:37 Rezin . . . Pekah: See 16:5.
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