REMALIAH
In English Remaliah / Hebrew means Remalyahuw/ Greek Romelias
Remaliah means -The exaltation of the Lord. Father of Pekah, King of Israel.
His reign was marked by Azariah’s dominance over. 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. 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. ( 2 Kings 15:25-26 )
He began to rule over Israel in the fifty-second year of King Uzziah’s reign in Judah. And reigned in Samaria for twenty years. But Pekah did evil in God’s sight. He also refuses to turn from the sin that Jeroboam, son of Nebat had led to commit. In the two fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria and reigned for twenty years.
( 2 Kings 15:27 ) , ( 2 Chronicles 28 )
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. And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was moved and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind.
Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, “Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shearjashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller’s field; “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”.Because Syria, Ephraim and the son of Remaliah have taken evil counsel against thee, saying, “Let us go up against Judah, vex it and make a breach therein for us and set a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal. Thus saith the Lord GOD, “It shall not stand nor come to pass. For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within three and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people. 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”. ( Isaiah 7:1-9 )
Father of Pekah who slew his master( Pekahiah)and reigned in his stead.
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. 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. In the two fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria and reigned for twenty years. 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.
In the days of Pekah, king of Israel came Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abelbethmaachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria. And Hoshea, Elah’s son, made a conspiracy against Pekah, the son of Remaliah, smote him, slew him, and reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah. 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. In the second year of Pekah, the son of Remaliah king of Israel began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign. Five and twenty years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok.
And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD: he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done. Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He built the higher gate of the house of the LORD. Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? In those days the LORD began to send against Judah Rezin the king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah. ( 2 Kings15:25-37 )
He was a man probably a man whose character was such as to make his name a reproach to his Descendants. B.C. ante 756.
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 the son of Remaliah. Because Syria, Ephraim and the son of Remaliah have taken evil counsel against thee, saying, ( Isaiah 7:4-5 )
Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go softly and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah’s son.
( Isaiah 8:6 )
The family name of the eleven Pharahos of the 19th and 20th dynasties of Egypt( 1303 B.C.1890 ) this period is known as the Ramesilian period ( Egypt, Pharaohs ).