2 Kings 15 · Verse 27

2 Kings 15:27

In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned twenty years.
2 Kings 15:27, King James Version

2 Kings 15:27 in other translations

BSBIn the fifty-second year of Azariah’s reign over Judah, Pekah son of Remaliah became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria twenty years.
WEBIn the fifty-second year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria for twenty years.
ASVIn the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned twenty years.
YLTIn the fifty and second year of Azariah king of Judah, reigned hath Pekah son of Remaliah over Israel, in Samaria--twenty years,
DARBYIn the fifty-second year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, for twenty years.
BBEIn the fifty-second year of Azariah, king of Judah, Pekah, the son of Remaliah, became king over Israel in Samaria, ruling for twenty years.
WebsterIn the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned twenty years.

What does 2 Kings 15:27 mean?

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 2 Kings 15:8-31

This history shows Israel in confusion. Though Judah was not without troubles, yet that kingdom was happy, compared with the state of Israel. The imperfections of true believers are very different from the allowed wickedness of ungodly men. Such is human nature, such are our hearts, if left to themselves, deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. We have reason to be thankful for restraints, for being kept…

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2 Kings 15:27 in the original Hebrew

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בִּשְׁנַ֨תbish.Natin yearH8141
חֲמִשִּׁ֤יםcha.mi.ShimfiftyH2572
וּשְׁתַּ֙יִם֙u.she.Ta.yimand twoH8147
שָׁנָ֔הsha.NahyearH8141
לַעֲזַרְיָ֖הla.'a.zar.Yahof AzariahH5838
מֶ֣לֶךְMe.lekh[the] king ofH4428
יְהוּדָ֑הye.hu.DahJudahH3063
מָ֠לַךְMa.lakhhe became kingH4427
פֶּ֣קַחPe.kachPekahH6492
בֶּן\־ben-[the] son ofH1121
רְמַלְיָ֧הוּre.mal.Ya.huRemaliahH7425
עַל\־'al-overH5921
יִשְׂרָאֵ֛לYis.ra.'ElIsraelH3478
בְּשֹׁמְר֖וֹןbe.sho.me.Ronin SamariaH8111
עֶשְׂרִ֥ים'es.RimtwentyH6242
שָׁנָֽה\׃sha.Nahyear[s]H8141

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Cross references for 2 Kings 15:27

  • 2 Kings 15:23

    In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned two years.

  • Isaiah 7:4

    And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.

  • Isaiah 7:1

    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 15:8

    In the thirty and eighth year of Azariah king of Judah did Zachariah the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in Samaria six months.

  • Isaiah 7:9

    And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.

  • 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.

  • 2 Chronicles 28:6

    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.

  • 2 Kings 15:2

    Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned two and fifty years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jecholiah of Jerusalem.

  • 2 Kings 15:13

    Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the nine and thirtieth year of Uzziah king of Judah; and he reigned a full month in Samaria.

  • 2 Kings 15:25

    But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his, conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the king’s house, with Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men of the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his room.

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Context

  • 2 Kings 15:26

    And the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

  • 2 Kings 15:27

    In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned twenty years.

  • 2 Kings 15:28

    And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.

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2 Kings 15:27 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		En el año cincuenta y dos de Azarías rey de Judá, reinó Peka hijo de Remalías sobre Israel en Samaria; y reinó veinte años.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		La cinquante -deuxième année d’Azaria, roi de Juda, Pékakh, fils de Remalia, commença de régner sur Israël à Samarie; il régna 20 ans.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Im 52. Jahre Asarjas, des Königs von Juda, wurde Pekach, der Sohn Remaljas, König über Israel zu Samaria und regierte zwanzig Jahre.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Anno quinquagesimo secundo Azariæ regis Juda, regnavit Phacee filius Romeliæ super Israël in Samaria viginti annis.