In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.
Parallel translations
- KJV In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.
- BSB In the seventeenth year of Pekah son of Remaliah, Ahaz son of Jotham became king of Judah.
- NKJV In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, Ahaz the son of Jotham, king of Judah, began to reign.
- NASB In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, Ahaz the son of Jotham, king of Judah, became king.
- NLT Ahaz son of Jotham began to rule over Judah in the seventeenth year of King Pekah’s reign in Israel.
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Ahaz son of Jotham begins to reign over Judah, dated to Pekah's seventeenth year. His reign will be marked by serious unfaithfulness.
Overview
The narrative formally opens Ahaz's reign, again cross-dated with the northern kingdom. Though he inherits David's throne, Ahaz will prove to be one of Judah's most apostate kings. His story stands as a sober warning that covenant privilege does not guarantee covenant faithfulness.
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Cross-references · 8
- Isa 1:1The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
- 2 Kgs 15:32–33In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel, Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah began to reign.
- Mic 1:1Yahweh’s word that came to Micah the Morashtite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.
- 2 Chr 28:1–4Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. He didn’t do that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, like David his father,
- 2 Kgs 15:38Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in his father David’s city, and Ahaz his son reigned in his place.
- Hos 1:1Yahweh’s word that came to Hosea the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.
- 2 Kgs 15:27–30In the fifty-second year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria for twenty years.
- Isa 7:1In the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.
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