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2 Kings 15:24 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 24. 24And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
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Role in This Section
This verse advances the thought unit through its next reported action, speech, or consequence: “And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from the….” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Pekahiah is assassinated in the palace.”
Read It With
- 2 Kings 15:23–26
Read 2 Kings 15:24 with 15:23–26. The selected wording supplies one step in the thought unit through its next reported action, speech, or consequence; the surrounding verses supply the causes, responses, and outcome summarized here: Pekahiah continues Jeroboam's pattern and is killed in Samaria's citadel by Pekah with fifty Gileadites.
Why It Needs Context
2 Kings 15:24 depends on 15:23–26; isolating “And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from the…” would detach a supporting action, quotation, name, number, object, or transition from “Pekahiah is assassinated in the palace.”
Read 2 Kings 15:23–26 together
Why these verses belong together: 2 Kings 15:23–26 forms one scene or regnal notice: Pekahiah continues Jeroboam's pattern and is killed in Samaria's citadel by Pekah with fifty Gileadites.
Verse 23. 23 In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned two years.
Verse 24. 24 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
Verse 25. 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 Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men of the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his room.
Verse 26. 26 And the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Exact location: 2 Kings 15:23–26, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
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Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 2 Kings
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