27 In the two H8147 H8141 and fiftieth H2572 year H8141 of Azariah H5838 king H4428 of Judah H3063 Pekah H6492 the son H1121 of Remaliah H7425 began to reign H4427 over Israel H3478 in Samaria, H8111 and reigned twenty H6242 years. H8141
And it came to pass in the days H3117 of Ahaz H271 the son H1121 of Jotham, H3147 the son H1121 of Uzziah, H5818 king H4428 of Judah, H3063 that Rezin H7526 the king H4428 of Syria, H758 and Pekah H6492 the son H1121 of Remaliah, H7425 king H4428 of Israel, H3478 went up H5927 toward Jerusalem H3389 to war H4421 against it, but could H3201 not prevail H3898 against it.
In the fiftieth H2572 H8141 year H8141 of Azariah H5838 king H4428 of Judah H3063 Pekahiah H6494 the son H1121 of Menahem H4505 began to reign H4427 over Israel H3478 in Samaria, H8111 and reigned two years. H8141
And say H559 unto him, Take heed, H8104 and be quiet; H8252 fear H3372 not, neither be fainthearted H7401 H3824 for the two H8147 tails H2180 of these smoking H6226 firebrands, H181 for the fierce H2750 anger H639 of Rezin H7526 with Syria, H758 and of the son H1121 of Remaliah. H7425
Sixteen H8337 H6240 years H8141 old H1121 was he when he began to reign, H4427 and he reigned H4427 two H8147 and fifty H2572 years H8141 in Jerusalem. H3389 And his mother's H517 name H8034 was Jecholiah H3203 of Jerusalem. H3389
But Pekah H6492 the son H1121 of Remaliah, H7425 a captain H7991 of his, conspired H7194 against him, and smote H5221 him in Samaria, H8111 in the palace H759 of the king's H4428 house, H1004 with Argob H709 and Arieh, H745 and with him fifty H2572 men H376 of the Gileadites: H1121 H1569 and he killed H4191 him, and reigned H4427 in his room.
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
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Commentary on 2 Kings 15 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 15
In this chapter,
2Ki 15:1-7
This is a short account of the reign of Azariah.
2Ki 15:8-31
The best days of the kingdom of Israel were while the government was in Jehu's family. In his reign, and the next three reigns, though there were many abominable corruptions and miserable grievances in Israel, yet the crown went in succession, the kings died in their beds, and some care was taken of public affairs; but, now that those days are at an end, the history which we have in these verses of about thirty-three years represents the affairs of that kingdom in the utmost confusion imaginable. Woe to those that were with child (v. 16) and to those that gave suck in those days, for then must needs be great tribulations, when, for the transgression of the land, many were the princes thereof.
2Ki 15:32-38
We have here a short account of the reign of Jotham king of Judah, of whom we are told,