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2 Kings 15:30 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 30. 30And 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.
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Quick Meaning
This verse advances the thought unit through its next reported action, speech, or consequence: “And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him….” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Pekah loses northern territory and is killed.”
Pekah loses the north to Tiglath-pileser, then loses his life to Hoshea
This verse is one part of that explanation in 2 Kings 15:27–31. The complete section carries the connected meaning and how it should shape life.
Read It With
- 2 Kings 15:27–31
Read 2 Kings 15:30 with 15:27–31. 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: Pekah continues royal evil, Tiglath-pileser takes northern cities and deports inhabitants, and Hoshea kills Pekah and succeeds him.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Within “Pekah loses northern territory and is killed,” 2 Kings 15:30 advances the thought unit through its next reported action, speech, or consequence through the wording “And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him….” Its placement is governed by this reviewed relationship: 2 Kings 15:23–26 establishes this prior movement: Pekahiah continues Jeroboam's pattern and is killed in Samaria's citadel by Pekah with fifty Gileadites. 2 Kings 15:27–31 brings the preceding movement toward its narrated result or transition; that evidenced relationship, rather than database adjacency alone, explains its placement.
Read 2 Kings 15:27–31 together
Why these verses belong together: 2 Kings 15:27–31 forms one scene or regnal notice: Pekah continues royal evil, Tiglath-pileser takes northern cities and deports inhabitants, and Hoshea kills Pekah and succeeds him.
Verse 27. 27 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.
Verse 28. 28 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 29. 29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abel-beth-maachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.
Verse 30. 30 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.
Verse 31. 31 And the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
Follow the Context
- Pekah continues royal evil, Tiglath-pileser takes northern cities and deports inhabitants, and Hoshea kills Pekah and succeeds him.
- The unit closes by establishing the result or tension named in “Pekah loses northern territory and is killed” before the next narrated movement.
What This Verse Is Not Saying
2 Kings 15:30 does not permit the wording “And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him…” to be read apart from the selected verse's context. Deportation must not become a statistic or divine permission for forced displacement, and conquest does not establish ethnic superiority.
What Remains True
Public power, prophetic authority, and worship remain accountable to truth, human responsibility, affected people, and the limits of the evidence rather than title or success alone. This unit tests that truth through the narrated movement: Pekah continues royal evil, Tiglath-pileser takes northern cities and deports inhabitants, and Hoshea kills Pekah and succeeds him. In 2 Kings 15:30, the concrete line “And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him…” keeps that truth accountable to narrated evidence.
Teach It Back
In 70–220 words, explain 2 Kings 15:30's role in 15:27–31. Paraphrase “And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him…,” identify one agent or affected person, state one material source or historical limit, and name one conclusion the context does not authorize.
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Continue in Context
Read the complete section for the connected explanation and how it should shape life. This verse is a doorway into that passage, not a saying that stands alone.
Read 2 Kings 15:27–31 — Pekah loses northern territory and is killedSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
Where care is needed
Assyrian campaigns and the regnal synchronisms are reconstructed from biblical and imperial sources with different agendas.
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: 2 Kings 15:27–31, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 2 Kings
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, royal formulas, clause relationships, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/2Kgs.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 15:27–31
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: 2 Kings with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: A unit-bounded translation comparison plus only the lexical, grammatical, textual, historical, or older-English notes actually printed for these verses; silence is not treated as evidence.
Exact location: NET Bible 2 Kings PDF, printed pp. 649–651, translation and translator notes for 15:27–31
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