2 Kings 15:37
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New International Version (©2011)
(In those days the LORD began to send Rezin king of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah against Judah.)

New Living Translation (©2007)
In those days the LORD began to send King Rezin of Aram and King Pekah of Israel to attack Judah.

English Standard Version (©2001)
In those days the LORD began to send Rezin the king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah against Judah.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
In those days the LORD began to send Rezin king of Aram and Pekah the son of Remaliah against Judah.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
In those days the LORD began to send against Judah Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
In those days the LORD began sending Rezin king of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah against Judah.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Right about that time, the LORD began to send King Rezin of Aram and Remaliah's son Pekah against Judah.

NET Bible (©2006)
In those days the LORD prompted King Rezin of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah to attack Judah.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
In those days the LORD began to use King Rezin of Aram and Pekah, son of Remaliah, to attack Judah.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
In those days the LORD began to send against Judah Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah.

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

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
In those days the Lord began to send into Juda Basin king of Syria, and Phacee the son of Romelia.

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

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

Webster's Bible Translation
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 Yahweh 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.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

15:32-38 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.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 37. - In those days the Lord began to send against Judah Resin the King of Syria. Rezin's name occurs in the Assyrian inscriptions early in the reign of Tigiath-pileser, probably in the year B.C. 743. At that time he pays to the Assyrians a heavy tribute, consisting of eighteen talents of gold, three hundred talents of silver, two hundred talents of copper, and twenty talents of spices. Subsequently, about the year B.C. 734, he is found in revolt. His alliance with Pekah, here implied, is directly stated by Isaiah 7:2. Begun in Jotham's reign, it continued, and came to a head, in the reign of Ahaz (see 2 Kings 16:5 and Isaiah 7:1-9; Isaiah 8:6). And Pekah the son of Remaliah. Pekah and Rezin intended to establish on the Jewish throne a certain Ben-Tabeal (Isaiah 7:6), a creature of their own, with whose aid they thought to offer an effectual resistance to Assyria.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

In those days,.... At the end of the days of Jotham, or after his death, things might be in design, and preparations made before, but nothing of what follows came to pass in his life, but in the times of his son:

the Lord began to send against Judah Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah: to make war with them as a scourge to Ahaz for his sins; of which is in the following chapter.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

37. 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 [344]2Ch 27:5.] However, war was not actually waged till the reign of Ahaz.

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Jotham's Good Reign in Judah
…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? 37In those days the LORD began to send against Judah Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah. 38And Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.

2 Kings 15:36 As for the other events of Jotham's reign, and what he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings 15:38 Jotham rested with his ancestors and was buried with them in the City of David, the city of his father. And Ahaz his son succeeded him as king.
2 Kings 16:5 Then Rezin king of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel marched up to fight against Jerusalem and besieged Ahaz, but they could not overpower him.
Isaiah 7:1 When Ahaz son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, was king of Judah, King Rezin of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel marched up to fight against Jerusalem, but they could not overpower it.