2 Kings 15:25 NIV

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

The best days of the kingdom of Israel were while the government was in Jehu's family. In his reign, and the next three reigns, though there were many abominable corruptions and miserable grievances in Israel, yet the crown went in succession, the kings died in their beds, and some care was taken of public affairs; but, now that those days are at an end, the history which we have in these verses of about thirty-three years represents the affairs of that kingdom in the utmost confusion... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 15:25

But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his ,.... The word signifies a "third" man, the third to the king, as some think; Josephus F1 Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 9. c. 11. sect. 1.) calls him a "chiliarch", one that had the command of a thousand men: conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the king's house ; Josephus F2 Ibid. says it was at a banquet: with Argob, and Arieh ; whom, according to Abarbinel, Pekah slew with the king, being mighty men,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 15:25

Smote him in Samaria , in the palace of the king ' s house , with Argob and Arieh - Who Argob and Arieh were we know not; some make them men, some make them statues. Pekah had fifty Gileadites in the conspiracy with him. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 15:1-38

REIGNS OF AZARIAH AND JOTHAM OVER JUDAH ; AND OF ZACHARIAH , SHALLUM , MENAHEM , PEKAHIAH , AND PEKAH OVER ISRAEL . read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 15:1-38

Some lessons from the history of kings. "In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam," etc. The mighty Governor of the universe is represented as saying to the Jewish nation, "I gave thee a king in mine anger" ( Hosea 13:2 ). And truly, with a certain number of exceptions here and there through the ages, kings have proved malific scourges of the race. In this chapter there are mentioned no less than seven of those men who are called kings, but who, instead of having one grain of moral... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 15:8-31

Worldly prosperity not infrequently the ruin of kingdoms. I. EXAMPLE OF SAMARIA . Scarcely ever was there a more prosperous reign than that of Jeroboam II .—a reign of forty-one years of continual success, uncheckered by a misfortune-Syria defeated, the old border everywhere recovered, Hamath occupied, Damascus brought into a subject condition. As usual, where there is military success, wealth flowed in, and with wealth, luxury. "Great houses" were built ( Amos 3:15 ), "ivory... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 15:23-26

SHORT REIGN OF PEKAHIAH . The short reign of Pekahiah was wholly undistinguished. He held the throne for two years only, or perhaps for parts of two years, and performed no action that any historian has thought worthy of record. Our author has nothing to relate of him but the circumstances of his death ( 2 Kings 15:25 ), wherewith he combines the usual formulae ( 2 Kings 15:23 , 2 Kings 15:24 , 2 Kings 15:26 ). read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 15:25

But Pekah the son of Remaliah. Remaliah was probably a man of some importance, since Pekah seems to have been almost better known by his patronymic, Ben-Remaliah, "son of Remaliah," than by his own proper name (see Isaiah 7:4 , Isaiah 7:5 , Isaiah 7:9 ; Isaiah 8:6 ). A captain of his —"captain of a thousand," according to Josephus ( l.s.c .)— conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the king's house ; literally, in the tower (or keep) of the king ' ... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 15:25

A captain of his - A mere “captain,” a person, therefore, of very moderate rank. The low birth of Pekah is probably glanced at in Isaiah’s favorite designation of him as “Remaliah’s son” Isaiah 7:4-5, Isaiah 7:9; Isaiah 8:6.From the fact that Pekah employed Gileadites to carry out his designs, it has been conjectured that he himself belonged to the trans-Jordanic region.In the palace of the king’s house - Rather, “In the tower of the king’s palace;” or possibly “in the harem of the king’s... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Kings 15:24-25

2 Kings 15:24-25 . He did that which was evil, &c. He was the wicked son of a wicked father, and so perished by such a conspiracy as his father formed against Shallum. With Argob and Arieh It does not appear from the text whether these persons were Pekah’s partners in this treason, or Pekahiah’s courtiers and officers now slain with him. With fifty men of the Gileadites Who, it is probable, were Pekahiah’s body-guard. read more

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 15:25

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 15:25

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 15:1-38

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 15:1-38

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 15:8-31

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 15:23-26

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 15:25

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 15:25

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Kings 15:24-25

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