Study it in the app“In the days of Pekah king of Israel Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and he carried them into exile to Assyria.”
In the daysבִּימֵיof Pekahפֶּקַחkingמֶלֶךְof IsraelיִשְׂרָאֵלTiglath-pileserתִּגְלַת פִּלְאֶסֶרkingמֶלֶךְof Assyriaאַשּׁוּרcameבָּאand tookוַיִּקַּחIjon,אֶת עִיּוֹןAbel-beth-maacah,וְאֶת אָבֵל בֵּית מַעֲכָהJanoah,וְאֶת יָנוֹחַKedesh,וְאֶת קֶדֶשׁHazor,וְאֶת חָצוֹרGilead,וְאֶת הַגִּלְעָדand Galilee,וְאֶת הַגָּלִילָהallכֹּלthe landאֶרֶץof Naphtali,נַפְתָּלִיand he carried them into exileוַיַּגְלֵםto Assyria.אַשּׁוּרָה
time
Literally "the days": a period, an age, or the span of someone's life.
Where else “yme” appearsPekah
Pekah: a name meaning "open (the eyes)," "one who sees." Captain of King Pekahiah; he killed him and reigned twenty years in Samaria (2 Kings 15:25-31). He attacked Judah together with Rezin of Aram (Isaiah 7:1).
Where else “pekach” appearsking
A king who rules a people.
Where else “melech” appearsIsrael
Israel, the new name Jacob received from God, explained as "you have striven with God" (Genesis 32:28); then the name of the people that came from him and, after the division, of the northern kingdom.
Where else “yisrael” appearsTiglath-pileser
Tiglath-pileser: a king of Assyria who took the north of Israel and carried its people into exile (2 Kings 15:29), and from whom Ahaz of Judah asked help (2 Kings 16:7). In Chronicles the name is written "Tilgath-pilneser."
Where else “tiglat” appearsAssyria, Asshur
See it on the mapWhere else “ashur” appearscome
To come, arrive: "days are coming".
Where else “ba” appearstake
To grasp something in the hand to carry or use it.
Where else “yikach” appearsIjon
Ijon: a city in the north of Israel, in the territory of Naphtali; the name means "ruin." It was struck by Ben-hadad (1 Kings 15:20) and later by Assyria (2 Kings 15:29).
Where else “iyon” appearsAbel-beth-maacah
Abel-beth-maacah: a city in the far north of Israel, near Dan; the name means "meadow of the house of Maacah." Sheba took refuge there (2 Samuel 20:14-15), and Ben-hadad struck it (1 Kings 15:20).
Where else “avel” appearsJanoah
Janoah: a town on the border of Ephraim. The name means "rest."
Where else “yanoach” appearsKedesh
Kedesh: the name of several cities; it means "holy place."
Where else “kedesh” appearsHazor
See it on the mapWhere else “chatsor” appearsGilead
See it on the mapWhere else “gilad” appearsGalilee
See it on the mapWhere else “galila” appearsland
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “erets” appearsNaphtali
Naphtali, a son of Jacob and Bilhah; also the tribe that came from him and its land. The name sounds like "wrestle".
Where else “naftali” appearsgo into exile
To be taken away from one's own land, or deport others.
Where else “yagle” appears1Assyria
Today: northern Iraq (with parts of Syria, Turkey, Iran)
An empire of northern Mesopotamia along the Tigris River, in present-day Iraq.
Assyria took the northern kingdom of Israel captive (2 Kgs 17:6). God sent Jonah to preach in Nineveh, its capital (Jonah 3:3).
2Hazor
Today: Tel Hazor ruins, Israel
A city in northern Israel, about 9 miles (15 km) north of the Sea of Galilee.
Joshua defeated and burned it (Josh 11:10-11). Later its king Jabin oppressed Israel until Deborah and Barak defeated him (Judg 4:2). Solomon fortified it (1 Kgs 9:15).
3Gilead
Today: northern Jordan, east of the Jordan River
A hill region east of the Jordan River, in present-day Jordan.
Reuben, Gad and half of Manasseh settled there (Num 32:1, 33). Jephthah was from Gilead (Judg 11:1). Jeremiah spoke of its balm (Jer 8:22).
4Galilee
Today: northern Israel, around the Sea of Galilee
The northern region of Israel, around the Sea of Galilee.
Most of Jesus' ministry took place there; he taught, healed and called his disciples (Matt 4:23; Mark 1:14).
28He did what was evil in the eyes of YHWH; he did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, by which he made Israel sin.
29 · This verse (above)
30Hoshea son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah son of Remaliah, and struck him and put him to death and reigned in his place, in year twenty of Jotham son of Uzziah.
