Bible Person
Meaning: the exaltation of the Lord · Male · 13 cross references
Remaliah is remembered chiefly as the father of Pekah, the northern king who becomes one of Judah's chief threats in the Syro-Ephraimite crisis. His name persists because prophetic and historical texts repeatedly identify Pekah through him. First appears in 2 Kgs 15:25.1
AI summary: Remaliah matters because the cross references preserve him through the recurring phrase "son of Remaliah," especially in Isaiah's confrontation with fear and political panic. He is not a major actor himself, but that formula effectively turns his name into a marker for the northern threat facing Judah in Ahaz's day. The repetition gives his identity rhetorical weight beyond a normal genealogy. Taken together, the material presents Remaliah as a minor ancestral figure whose significance is magnified by the prominence of the crisis attached to his son.1
Central Figure
Remaliah
Meaning: the exaltation of the Lord
Adorned by the Lord, the father of Pekah, who conspired successfully against Pekahiah (2 Kings 15:25, 27, 30, 32, 37; Isa.
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Figure1: A table of cross references between the selected passage and other passages (Data from Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.)
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.