2 Chronicles 28:6

6 For ¹Pekah the son of Remaliah killed 120,000 from Judah in one day, all of them men of valor, because they had forsaken the Lord, the God of their fathers.

2 Chronicles 28:6 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 28:6

For Pekah son of Remaliah
Who was at this time king of Israel:

slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day,
which were all

valiant men;
a great slaughter to be made at one time, and of valiant men, but not so great as that in ( 2 Chronicles 13:17 ) ,

because they had forsaken the Lord God of their fathers;
this was not a reason with Pekah for slaying them, he himself being an idolater, but why the Lord suffered them to be slain by him.

2 Chronicles 28:6 In-Context

4 And he sacrificed and made offerings on the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.

5 Therefore the Lord his God gave him into the hand of the king of Syria, who defeated him and took captive a great number of his people and brought them to Damascus. He was also given into the hand of the king of Israel, who struck him with great force.

6 For Pekah the son of Remaliah killed 120,000 from Judah in one day, all of them men of valor, because they had forsaken the Lord, the God of their fathers.

7 And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, killed Maaseiah the king’s son and Azrikam the commander of the palace and Elkanah the next in authority to the king.

8 The men of Israel took captive 200,000 of their relatives, women, sons, and daughters. They also took much spoil from them and brought the spoil to Samaria.

Cross References

• 1. 28:6 2 Kgs. 15:27; 16:5