2 Kings 15:37

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Summary

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.

Began

To send

Jeremiah 43:10

Rezin

Bible References

Began

In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short, for Hazael slew them in all the coasts of Israel,

In that day I will perform to Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house: I will begin it and end it.

For lo, I begin to plague the city that my name is given unto: think ye then, that I will leave you unpunished? Ye shall not go quit. For why? I call for a sword upon all the inhabiters of the earth, sayeth the LORD of Hosts.

When these things begin to come to pass: then look up, and lift up your heads, for your redemption draweth nigh."

To send

therefore thou shalt serve thine enemy which the LORD shall send upon thee: in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and in need of all things. And he shall put a yoke of iron upon thine neck, until he have brought thee to nought.

How he sent upon them the furiousness of his wrath, anger, displeasure, and trouble, and sent evil angels among them;

Woe be also unto Assyria, which is a staff of my wrath, in whose hand is the rod of my punishment.

Behold, sayeth the LORD, I will send out many fishers to take them, and after that will I send out many hunters to hunt them out, from all mountains and hills and out of the caves of stones.

and say unto them, 'Thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts the God of Israel: Behold, I will send and call for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon my servant, and will set his seat upon these stones that I have hid, and he shall spread his tent over them.

Rezin

Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to fight. And they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him.

For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah a hundred and twenty thousand in one day, and all fighting men: and that because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers.

It happened in the time of Ahaz the son of Jotham, which was 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 besiege it, but won it not.

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