First name Remaliah in the world's Bibles
In the bible, Remaliah is the name of the father of Pekah (2KI 15:25). Meaning of the name: the exaltation of the Lord. Related names are: Pekah, Judah, Rezin . The translations of Remaliah in 20 languages of the Bible are illustrated in the
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below, from Rê-Ma-Lia in Vietnamese to Ρομελιου in Greek!
Wear it!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 Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men of the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his room. (2KI 15:25)
In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned twenty years. (2KI 15:27)
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. (2KI 15:30)
In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign. (2KI 15:32)
In those days the LORD began to send against Judah Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah. (2KI 15:37)
In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign. (2KI 16:1)
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. (2KI 16:5)
For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, which were all valiant men; because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. (2CH 28:6)
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 of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it. (ISA 7:1)
And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah. (ISA 7:4)
Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying, (ISA 7:5)
And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established. (ISA 7:9)
Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son; (ISA 8:6)