2 Kings 15:30

And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.

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Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
Hoshea	הוֹשֵׁ֣עַ ho.She.a'	H1954	Hoshea · proper noun, a man's name
son	בֶּן ben-	H1121	a son (as a builder of the family name) · noun, common masculine singular construct
Elah	אֵלָ֗ה 'e.Lah	H425	Elah · proper noun, a man's name
made	וַיִּקְשָׁר vai.yik.shor-	H7194	to tie · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
conspiracy	קֶ֜שֶׁר Ke.sher	H7195	an (unlawful) alliance · noun, common masculine singular absolute
Pekah	פֶּ֙קַח֙ pe.kach	H6492	Pekach · proper noun, a man's name
son	בֶּן ben-	H1121	a son (as a builder of the family name) · noun, common masculine singular construct
Remaliah	רְמַלְיָ֔הוּ re.mal.Ya.hu	H7425	Remaljah · proper noun, a man's name
smote	וַיַּכֵּ֙הוּ֙ vai.ya.Ke.hu	H5221	to strike (lightly or severely · conjunction + verb, hiphil sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
slew	וַיְמִיתֵ֔הוּ vay.mi.Te.hu	H4191	to die (literally or figuratively) · conjunction + verb, hiphil sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
reigned	וַיִּמְלֹ֖ךְ vai.yim.Lokh	H4427	to reign · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
twentieth	עֶשְׂרִ֔ים 'es.Rim	H6242	twenty · noun, common masculine plural absolute
year	בִּשְׁנַ֣ת bish.Nat	H8141	a year (as a revolution of time) · preposition + noun, common feminine singular construct
Jotham	לְיוֹתָ֖ם le.yo.Tam	H3147	Jotham · preposition + proper noun, a man's name
son	בֶּן ben-	H1121	a son (as a builder of the family name) · noun, common masculine singular construct
Uzziah	עֻזִיָּֽה 'u.zi.Yah	H5818	Uzzijah · proper noun, a man's name

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

2 Kings 17:1 In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years.
2 Kings 15:10 And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and smote him before the people, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.
2 Kings 15:25 But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his, conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the king’s house, with Ar…
2 Kings 15:32-33 In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign.
2 Kings 16:1 In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.
2 Chronicles 28:4-6 He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
2 Chronicles 28:16 At that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria to help him.
Isaiah 7:1-9 And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on 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 imaginable. Woe to those that were with child (Kg2 15:16) and to those that gave suck in those days, for then must needs be great tribulations, when, for the transgression of the land, many were the princes the…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Kings 15:30

Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy . . . and slew him--He did not, however, obtain possession of the kingdom till about nine or ten years after the perpetration of this crime [HALES]. in the twentieth year of Jotham--Jotham's reign lasted only sixteen years, but the meaning is that the reign of Hoshea began in the twentieth after the beginning of Jotham's reign. The sacred historian, having not yet introduced the name of Ahaz, reckoned the date by Jotham, whom he had already mentioned (see Ch2 27:8).

Adam Clarke on 2 Kings 15:30

Hoshea the son of Elah - in the twentieth year of Jotham - There are many difficulties in the chronology of this place. To reconcile the whole, Calmet says: "Hoshea conspired against Pekah, the twentieth year of the reign of this prince, which was the eighteenth after the beginning of the reign of Jotham, king of Judah. Two years after this, that is, the fourth year of Ahaz, and the twentieth of Jotham, Hoshea made himself master of a part of the kingdom, according to Kg2 15:30. Finally, the twelfth year of Ahaz, Hoshea had peaceable possession of the whole kingdom, according to Kg2 17:1."

John Gill on 2 Kings 15:30

And Hoshea the son or Elab made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead,.... Did by him as he had done by Pekahiah, 2 Kings 15:28, this was measure for measure, as the Jews say: and this he did in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah; and yet Jotham is said to reign but sixteen years, 2 Kings 15:33, this must be reckoned therefore either from the time of his being viceroy, and judging Israel in his father's lifetime, 2 Kings 15:5 or this was the fourth year of Ahaz, and the twentieth year, reckoning from the time Jotham began to reign, who is the rather mentioned, because as yet the historian had taken no notice of Ahaz…

Dictionary and topics

Elah — Terebinth or oak. (1.) Valley of, where the Israelites were encamped when David killed Goliath (1 Sam. 17:2, 19). It was near Shochoh of Judah and Azekah (17:1). It is the modern Wady es-Sunt, i.e.,…
Pekah — Open-eyed, the son of Remaliah a captain in the army of Pekahiah, king of Israel, whom he slew, with the aid of a band of Gileadites, and succeeded (B.C. 758) on the throne (2 Kings 15:25). Seventeen…
Remaliah — Adorned by the Lord, the father of Pekah, who conspired successfully against Pekahiah (2 Kings 15:25, 27, 30, 32, 37; Isa. 7:1, 4, 5, 9; 8:6).
Conspiracy · .Pekah — .Pekah
Elah · 6. Father of Hoshea — 6. Father of Hoshea
Hoshea · .Assassinates Pekah and usurps the throne — .Assassinates Pekah and usurps the throne
Kings · Who reigned over Israel: Pekah — Who reigned over Israel: Pekah
Pekah · Is plotted against and killed by Hoshea — Is plotted against and killed by Hoshea
Regicide · Of Pekah — Of Pekah
Remaliah · Father of Pekah, king of Israel — Father of Pekah, king of Israel

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

2 Kings 15:30

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 15:8-31

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Kings 15:30

Adam Clarke on 2 Kings 15:30

John Gill on 2 Kings 15:30

Dictionary and topics

2 Kings 15:30

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 15:8-31

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Kings 15:30

Adam Clarke on 2 Kings 15:30

John Gill on 2 Kings 15:30

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on 2 Kings 15:30-31

Tyndale Open Study Notes on 2 Kings 15:29-30

Rashi on 2 Kings 15:30