2 Kings 15:27-31 ASV

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 15:31

The rest of the acts of Pekah - On these, see 2 Kings 16:5 note. read more

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Kings 15:27

2 Kings 15:27. In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah Pekah began to reign This is the fifth king that reigned over Israel during the reign of Azariah king of Judah. Pekah, however, reigned much longer than any of the preceding four. For though he also, like Shallum and Menahem, got the kingdom by treason and blood, he kept possession of it twenty years. So long it was before his violent dealing returned upon his own head. And he made himself more noted abroad than any of these usurpers;... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Kings 15:29

2 Kings 15:29. In the days of Pekah came Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, &c. He is supposed by some to have been the son and successor of Sardanapalus, who restored the kingdom of Assyria, and possessed it after it bad been dismembered by Belesis and Arbaces: but our learned Prideaux, who begins his valuable connection of the Old and New Testaments at this period, makes him to be the same with Arbaces, who, together with Belesis, headed the conspiracy against Sardanapalus, and fixed... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Kings 15:30

2 Kings 15:30. Hosea made a conspiracy against Pekah, and smote him It is probable that the people were provoked at him for leaving them exposed to a foreign enemy, while he invaded Judah; and that Hosea took advantage of their discontent and disgust to seize and slay him. Thus Pekah’s treason and violence returned upon himself at last. And reigned in his stead in the twentieth year of Jotham The meaning is, that he began his reign in the twentieth year after the beginning of Jotham’s... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 15:27-38

Judah’s decline under Ahaz (15:27-16:20)The writer of Kings records the Assyrian attack mentioned above. Pekah’s policy had proved fatal and he was assassinated by Hoshea, a sympathizer with Assyria. Hoshea then became king and won temporary relief for Israel by submitting to Assyria’s control (27-31).Before speaking further of Hoshea, the writer returns to the time before Pekah was assassinated. Pekah’s program for the conquest of Judah had begun during the reign of Jotham, but reached its... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 2 Kings 15:27

twenty years. See App-50 . The Assyrian inscription shows only four years. But why is writing on stone always assumed to be correct, and on parchment, always wrong? There were two chronological mistakes on the Duke of Cambridge's monument erected in Whitehall, London, which were the subject of a correspondence in the London newspapers of that date. (The Duke died in March, 1904.) On the coffinplate of King Edward VII, his death is put as occurring in the "ninth" instead of in the "tenth" year... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 2 Kings 15:29

Tiglath pileser. See note on "Pul", 2 Kings 15:19 . Abel-beth-maachah . . . Gilead. These names are mentioned in Tiglath's own inscriptions. carried them captive. This deportation took place in 734 B.C., and is referred to in Isaiah 9:1 , Isaiah 9:2 . father, for whom he reigned four years. See note on 2 Kings 15:30 above. Zadok. The high priest (1 Chronicles 6:12 ). Perhaps this was why he invaded the priests' office. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 2 Kings 15:27

PEKAH'S EVIL REIGN OVER ISRAEL FOR TWENTY YEARS"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. And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, wherewith he made Israel to sin. In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria and took Ijon, and Abel-beth-maacah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead,... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Kings 15:29

2 Kings 15:29. Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, &c.— He is supposed by some to have been the son and successor of Sardanapalus, who restored the kingdom of Assyria and possessed it, after it had been dismembered by Belesis and Arbaces: but our learned Prideaux makes him to be the same with Arbaces; by AElian called Thilgamus, and by Castor, Ninus Junior; who, together with Belesis, headed the conspiracy against Sardanapalus, and fixed his royal seat at Nineveh, the ancient residence of the... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Kings 15:30

2 Kings 15:30. And Hosea, the son of Elah— After Hoshea had murdered his predecessor Pekah, the elders of the land seem to have taken the government into their own hands; for he had not the possession of the kingdom till the latter end of the twelfth year of Ahaz; i.e. nine years after he had committed the fact. He came to the crown, it must be owned, in a very wicked manner; and yet his character in Scripture is not so vile as that of many of his predecessors, chap. 2 Kings 17:2. For whereas... read more

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 15:31

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Kings 15:27

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Kings 15:29

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Kings 15:30

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 15:27-38

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 2 Kings 15:27

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 2 Kings 15:29

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 2 Kings 15:27

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Kings 15:29

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Kings 15:30

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