2 Kings 16:5 - The Scriptures 1998

Then Retsin sovereign of Aram and Peqaḥ

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to wage war; they besieged Ahaz, but could not conquer him.

American Standard Version (1901)

Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him.

Common English Bible

Then Aram’s King Rezin and Israel’s King Pekah, Remaliah’s son, came up to Jerusalem to fight. They surrounded Ahaz, but they weren’t able to defeat him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Then Rezin, the king of Syria, and Pekah, the son of Remaliah, the king of Israel, ascended to do battle against Jerusalem. And they besieged Ahaz, but they were not able to overcome him.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Then Rasin king of Syria, and Phacee son of Romelia king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to fight. And they besieged Achaz; but were not able to overcome him.

2 Kings 16:5 Cross References

1 Kings 11:36

‘And to his son I give one tribe, so that My servant Dawiḏ

1 Kings 15:4

But for Dawiḏ

2 Kings 15:37

In those days יהוה  began to send Retsin sovereign of Aram and Peqaḥ

Isaiah 7:14

“Therefore יהוה  Himself gives you a sign: Look, the maiden conceives and gives birth to a Son, and shall call His Name Immanu’ĕ

Isaiah 8:6

“Inasmuch as these people refused the waters of Shiloaḥ

Ezekiel 16:57

before your evil was exposed, as the time of the reproach of the daughters of Aram and all who were around her, and of the daughters of the Philistines, who are despising you everywhere?