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2 Kings 15:22

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And Menahem rested with his fathers, and his son Pekahiah reigned in his place.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And Menahem slept with his fathers; and Pekahiah his son reigned in his stead.

KJV

And Menahem slept with his fathers; and Pekahiah his son reigned in his stead.

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This verse in 2 Kings 15

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

Pul king of Assyria invaded the land

on 2 Kings 15:19-22

Pul is the first Assyrian king this book names coming against Israel's own soil. The empire that ends the north at 17:6 enters here as a threat bought off. The Babylonian king lists identify Pul with Tiglath-pileser the third, who returns at verse 29 and takes the land of Naphtali.

This site's exposition

Menahem rested with his fathers

Menahem is the only one of the last six kings of Israel to pass the throne to a son, as Barnes and John Gill observed. His son Pekahiah held it two years. His own officer then killed him at verse 25.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And Menahem slept with his fathers,.... Died a natural death, and in peace, though an usurper and a tyrant: and Pekahiah his son reigned in his stead; the kingdom he had usurped continued in his family.

The words behind it

8 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיִּשְׁכַּ֥בand he lay down

    vaiyishkavH7901 →212 times

  • מְנַחֵ֖םMenahem

    menachemH4505 →8 times

  • עִם־with

    ʾim-H5973 →1050 times

  • אֲבֹתָ֑יוancestors his

    ʾavotavH1 →1212 times

  • וַיִּמְלֹ֛ךְand he became king

    vaiyimlokhH4427 →348 times

  • פְּקַחְיָ֥הPekahiah

    pekachyahH6494 →3 times

  • בְנ֖וֹson his

    venoH1121 →4930 times

  • תַּחְתָּֽיו׃ פin place of him

    tachtavH8478 →505 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Where this verse is studied

About 2 Kings

Jews Mourning in Exile, Eduard Bendemann, 1832, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum. Public domain.
Jews Mourning in Exile, Eduard Bendemann, 1832, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum. Public domain.
2 Kings: the study guide →Read 2 Kings 15 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); F. W. Farrar, The Second Book of Kings (Expositor's Bible); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Keil, The Books of the Kings.

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