2 Kings 15:37 “(In those days the LORD began to send Rezin king of Aram and Pekah son…”

2 Kings 15:37

(In those days the LORD began to send Rezin king of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah against Judah.)

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

In those dayes the Lord began to send against Iudah Rezin the king of Aram, and Pekah the sonne of Remaliah.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

In those days hath Jehovah begun to send against Judah Rezin king of Amram and Pekah son of Remaliah.

Bible in Basic English

In those days the Lord first sent against Judah, Rezin, the king of Aram, and Pekah, the son of Remaliah.

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Cross references

“A. M. 3262. B.C. 742. In those days”

Isaiah 38:1–22

Isaiah 38:1–22 · BSB

In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him and said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Put your house in order, for you are about to die; you will not recover.’”

“began”

2 Kings 10:32 1 Samuel 3:12 Jeremiah 25:29 Luke 21:28

2 Kings 10:32 · BSB

In those days the LORD began to reduce the size of Israel. Hazael defeated the Israelites throughout their territory

1 Samuel 3:12 · BSB

On that day I will carry out against Eli everything I have spoken about his house, from beginning to end.

Jeremiah 25:29 · BSB

For behold, I am beginning to bring disaster on the city that bears My Name, so how could you possibly go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for I am calling down a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, decla…

Luke 21:28 · BSB

When these things begin to happen, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”

“to send”

Deuteronomy 28:48 Psalm 78:49 Isaiah 10:5–7 Jeremiah 16:16 Jeremiah 43:10

Deuteronomy 28:48 · BSB

you will serve your enemies the LORD will send against you in famine, thirst, nakedness, and destitution. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.

Psalm 78:49 · BSB

He unleashed His fury against them, wrath, indignation, and calamity— a band of destroying angels.

Isaiah 10:5–7 · BSB

Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath.

Jeremiah 16:16 · BSB

But for now I will send for many fishermen, declares the LORD, and they will catch them. After that I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill, even from the clefts of the rocks…

Jeremiah 43:10 · BSB

Then tell them that this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and I will set his throne over these stones that I have embedded, and he will sprea…

“Rezin”

2 Kings 16:5 Isaiah 7:1 2 Chronicles 28:6 Isaiah 7:8 Hosea 5:12 Hosea 5:13

2 Kings 16:5 · BSB

Then Rezin king of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to wage war against Jerusalem. They besieged Ahaz but could not overcome him.

Isaiah 7:1 · BSB

Now in the days that Ahaz son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, was king of Judah, Rezin king of Aram marched up to wage war against Jerusalem. He was accompanied by Pekah son of Remaliah the king of Israel, but he could not…

2 Chronicles 28:6 · BSB

For in one day Pekah son of Remaliah killed 120,000 valiant men in Judah. This happened because they had forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers.

Isaiah 7:8 · BSB

For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. Within sixty-five years Ephraim will be shattered as a people.

Hosea 5:12 · BSB

So I am like a moth to Ephraim, and like decay to the house of Judah.

Hosea 5:13 · BSB

When Ephraim saw his sickness and Judah his wound, then Ephraim turned to Assyria and sent to the great king. But he cannot cure you or heal your wound.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

36As for the rest of the acts of Jotham, along with his accomplishments, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

38And Jotham rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the City of David his father. And his son Ahaz reigned in his place.

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