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In those daysu the Lord began to send against Judah Rezinw the king of Syria, and Pekaha the son of Remaliah.

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At the end of Jotham's reign.

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2 Kings 16:5• ⁵Then Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah son of Remaliah, the king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem to battle; and they besieged Ahaz, but were unable to conquer him. (2 Kings 16:5)

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2 Kings 15:27• ²⁷In the fifty-second year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, for twenty years. (2 Kings 15:27)

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A.M. 3262.

B.C. 742.

In those days."At the end of Jotham's reign."

This Jotham died at forty-one.

He was too great a blessing to be continued long to such an unworthy people.

His death was a judgment, especially considering the character of Ahaz, his son and successor:

for we read, (16:3) Ahaz made his son pass through the fire.

This son may have been Hezekiah, who served the Lord, and whose prayer in sickness was most graciously herd and answered.

Isa. 38:1‑22• ¹In those days Hezekiah was sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, Thus saith Jehovah: Set thy house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.
²And Hezekiah turned his face to the wall, and prayed to Jehovah,
³and said, Ah, Jehovah, remember, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept much.
⁴And the word of Jehovah came to Isaiah, saying,
⁵Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of David thy father: I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add to thy days fifteen years.
⁶And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city.
⁷And this shall be the sign to thee from Jehovah, that Jehovah will do this thing that he hath spoken:
⁸behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees which hath gone down with the sun on the dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned on the dial ten degrees, by which it had gone down.
⁹The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick and had recovered from his sickness:
¹⁰I said, In the meridian of my days I shall go to the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the rest of my years.
¹¹I said, I shall not see Jah, Jah in the land of the living. With those who dwell where all has ceased to be, I shall behold man no more.
¹²Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent. I have cut off like a weaver my life. He separateth me from the thrum:--from day to night thou wilt make an end of me.
¹³I kept still until the morning; … as a lion, so doth he break all my bones. From day to night thou wilt make an end of me.
¹⁴Like a swallow or a crane, so did I chatter; I mourned as a dove; mine eyes failed with looking upward: Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
¹⁵What shall I say? He hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it. I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.
¹⁶Lord, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit; and thou hast recovered me, and made me to live.
¹⁷Behold, instead of peace I had bitterness upon bitterness; but thou hast in love delivered my soul from the pit of destruction; for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
¹⁸For not Sheol shall praise thee, nor death celebrate thee; they that go down into the pit do not hope for thy truth.
¹⁹The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.
²⁰Jehovah was purposed to save me.--And we will play upon my stringed instruments all the days of our life, in the house of Jehovah.
²¹Now Isaiah had said, Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a plaster upon the boil, and he shall recover.
²²And Hezekiah had said, What is the sign that I shall go up into the house of Jehovah? (Isa. 38:1‑22)

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2 Kings 10:32• ³²In those days Jehovah began to cut Israel short; and Hazael smote them in all the borders of Israel; (2 Kings 10:32)

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1 Sam. 3:12• ¹²In that day I will perform against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house; I will begin and make an end. (1 Sam. 3:12)

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Jer. 25:29• ²⁹For behold, I begin to bring evil on the city that is called by my name, and should ye be altogether unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished; for I call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith Jehovah of hosts. (Jer. 25:29)

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Luke 21:28• ²⁸But when these things begin to come to pass, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws nigh. (Luke 21:28)

to send.

Deut. 28:48• ⁴⁸thou shalt serve thine enemies whom Jehovah will send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of everything; and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee. (Deut. 28:48)

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Psa. 78:49• ⁴⁹He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and distress,--a mission of angels of woes. (Psa. 78:49)

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Isa. 10:5‑7• ⁵Ah! the Assyrian! the rod of mine anger! and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.
⁶I will send him against a hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge; to take the spoil, and to seize the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
⁷But he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; for it is in his heart to extirpate and cut off nations not a few. (Isa. 10:5‑7)

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Jer. 16:16• ¹⁶Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith Jehovah, and they shall fish them; and afterwards will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them, from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks. (Jer. 16:16)

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Jer. 43:10• ¹⁰and say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne upon these stones which I have hidden, and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them. (Jer. 43:10)

Rezin.

2 Kings 16:5• ⁵Then Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah son of Remaliah, the king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem to battle; and they besieged Ahaz, but were unable to conquer him. (2 Kings 16:5)

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2 Chron. 28:6• ⁶And Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah a hundred and twenty thousand in one day, all valiant men, because they had forsaken Jehovah the God of their fathers. (2 Chron. 28:6)

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Isa. 7:1,8• ¹And 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, came up to Jerusalem to make war against it, but they were not able to fight against it.
⁸for the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within sixty-five years shall Ephraim be broken, so as to be no more a people; (Isa. 7:1,8)

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Hos. 5:12‑13• ¹²And I will be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
¹³When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his sore, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb; but he was unable to heal you, nor hath he removed your sore. (Hos. 5:12‑13)

Pekah.

2 Kings 15:27• ²⁷In the fifty-second year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, for twenty years. (2 Kings 15:27)

• The sin of Judah necessitated the discipline of God, but the consequences of this discipline could be removed by the godliness of their leader, as happened later under pious Hezekiah with regard to the Assyrian. It seems also that this may have been the case during the reign of Jotham. (“Jotham, King of Judah: 2 Kings 15:32-38” by H.L. Rossier)

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