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In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel, Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah began to reign.
2 Kings 15:32 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign.
  • BSB In the second year of the reign of Pekah son of Remaliah over Israel, Jotham son of Uzziah became king of Judah.
  • NKJV In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, Jotham the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, began to reign.
  • NASB In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel, Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah became king.
  • NLT Jotham son of Uzziah began to rule over Judah in the second year of King Pekah’s reign in Israel.

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Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 10

  • 2 Kgs 15:7Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in David’s city: and Jotham his son reigned in his place.
  • 1 Chr 3:12Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son,
  • 2 Kgs 15:27In 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 Kgs 15:23In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria for two years.
  • 2 Kgs 15:1In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah began to reign.
  • 2 Kgs 15:17In the thirty ninth year of Azariah king of Judah, Menahem the son of Gadi began to reign over Israel for ten years in Samaria.
  • 2 Chr 27:1–9Jotham was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jerushah the daughter of Zadok.
  • 2 Kgs 15:13Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the thirty-ninth year of Uzziah king of Judah, and he reigned for a month in Samaria.
  • Matt 1:9Uzziah became the father of Jotham. Jotham became the father of Ahaz. Ahaz became the father of Hezekiah.
  • 2 Kgs 14:21All the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah.

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Christ at the center

Amid the long decline toward exile, the promise to David's house refuses to die; the flickering lamp kept burning anticipates the coming King who will not fail or be cut off.

How 2 Kings 15:32 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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