2 Kings 15:37

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

In those days {H3117} the LORD {H3068} began {H2490} to send {H7971} against Judah {H3063} Rezin {H7526} the king {H4428} of Syria {H758}, and Pekah {H6492} the son {H1121} of Remaliah {H7425}.

It was during this period that ADONAI began sending against Y'hudah Retzin the king of Aram and Pekach the son of Remalyah.

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

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

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Cross-References

  • Isaiah 7:1 (5 votes)

    ¶ And 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 toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.

  • 2 Kings 16:5 (5 votes)

    ¶ Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome [him].

  • Psalms 78:49 (2 votes)

    He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels [among them].

  • 2 Chronicles 28:6 (2 votes)

    ¶ For 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 the LORD God of their fathers.

  • Deuteronomy 28:48 (2 votes)

    Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all [things]: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.

  • Isaiah 7:8 (2 votes)

    For the head of Syria [is] Damascus, and the head of Damascus [is] Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.

  • Hosea 5:12 (2 votes)

    Therefore [will] I [be] unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.