2 Kings 15:37

2 Kings 15:37 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)In those days the Lord began to send against Judah Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah.
• New International Version (NIV)(In those days the Lord began to send Rezin king of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah against Judah.)
• English Standard Version (ESV)In those days the Lord began to send Rezin the king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah against Judah.
• New King James Version (NKJV)In those days the Lord began to send Rezin king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah against Judah.

Context of 2 Kings 15:37

35However, the high places were not taken away, and the people were still sacrificing and burning incense on the high places. It was he who built the upper gate of the House of Adonai. 36Now the rest of the acts of Jotham and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? In those days Adonai began to send King Rezin of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah against Judah. 38Jotham slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of his father David. Then Ahaz his son became king in his place.

2 Kings 15:37 word by word

בַּיָּמִ֣ים הָהֵ֔ם הֵחֵ֣ל יְהוָ֗ה לְהַשְׁלִ֙יחַ֙ בִּֽיהוּדָ֔ה רְצִ֖ין מֶ֣לֶךְ אֲרָ֑ם וְאֵ֖ת פֶּ֥קַח בֶּן־רְמַלְיָֽהוּ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• In those daysיוֹםyôm · dayH3117
• the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• beganחָלַלchâlal · to profane/begin: beginH2490
• to sendשָׁלַחshâlach · to send: departH7971
• against Judahיְהוּדָהyehûdâh · JudahH3063
• Rezinרְצִיןretsîyn · RezinH7526
• the kingמֶ֫לֶךְmelek · kingH4428
• of Syriaאֲרָם'ărâm · SyriaH758
• and Pekahפֶּ֫קַחpeqach · PekahH6492
• the sonבֵּןbên · son: childH1121
• of Remaliahרְמַלְיָ֜הוּremalyâhû · RemaliahH7425

Cross-references for 2 Kings 15:37

• 2 Kings 16:3Instead he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and even made his son pass through the fire, like the abominations of the nations whom Adonai had dispossessed before Bnei-Yisrael.
• Isaiah 38:1In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. So Isaiah the prophet son of Amoz came to him and said to him, “Thus says Adonai: Put your house in order. For you are dying, and will not live.”
• 2 Kings 10:32In those days Adonai began to reduce the size of Israel. For Hazael defeated them throughout the territory of Israel,
• 1 Samuel 3:12In that day I will perform against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from beginning to end.
• Jeremiah 25:29See, I am beginning to bring evil on the city where My name is called, and should you go completely unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for I am summoning a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth.” It is a declaration of Adonai-Tzva’ot.
• Luke 21:28Now when these things begin to happen, stand straight and lift up your heads, because your salvation is near!”
• Deuteronomy 28:48you will serve your enemies, whom Adonai will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and lacking everything; and He will put an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.
• Psalms 78:49He sent on them the fury of His anger —wrath and indignation and trouble— a band of evil angels.
• Isaiah 10:5Oy to Assyria, the rod of My anger— the club in their hand is My indignation!
• Jeremiah 16:16“Behold, I will send for many fishers,” says Adonai, “and they will fish for them. After that, I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down from every mountain and from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.
• Jeremiah 43:10Then say to them, thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot, the God of Israel: “I am about to send for and bring King Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and I will set his throne over these stones where I have hid, and he will spread his royal pavilion over them.
• 2 Kings 16:5Then King Rezin of Aram and Pekah son of King Remaliah of Israel marched against Jerusalem to wage war. They besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him.
• 2 Chronicles 28:6In one day, Pekah the son of Remaliah killed 120,000 valiant soldiers of Judah—because they had forsaken Adonai, the God of their fathers.
• Isaiah 7:1Now it came about in the days of Ahaz son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that King Rezin of Aram and King Pekah, son of Remaliah of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.
• Hosea 5:12So, I will be like a moth to Ephraim and like decay to the house of Judah.
• 2 Kings 15:27In the fifty-second year of King Azariah of Judah, Pekah son of Remaliah became king over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned 20 years.

Commentaries on 2 Kings 15:37

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 37In 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…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 37The 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…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 32-38Verses 32-38 Jotham showed great respect to the temple. If magistrates cannot do all they would, for the suppressing of vice and profaneness, let them do the more to support and advance piety and virtue.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 37Rezin … Pekah: See 2 Kings 16:5.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 3737. 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 2Ch 27:5.] However, war was not actually waged till the reign of Ahaz.Read the comment

Topics related to 2 Kings 15:37

• Israel, Prophecies Concerning
• Rezin
• War

In the dictionaries

• Judah
• Syria
• Damascus
• Pekah
• Remaliah
• Rezin
• Ahaz
• Assyria
• Jotham
• Oded

Commentaries on 2 Kings 15

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings