Rezin
A person of the divided monarchy of Israel and Judah, first named at 2 Kings 15:37.
What we know — and how we know it
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ArchaeologyTiglath-Pileser III records taking Damascus and killing Rezin in 732 BC, ending the Aramean kingdom — just as Kings reports.
Where in scripture
2 KingsIsaiahIn those days, Yahweh began to send Rezin the king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah against Judah.
2 Kings 15:37
Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to wage war. They besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him.
2 Kings 16:5
At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drove the Jews from Elath; and the Syrians came to Elath, and lived there, to this day.
2 Kings 16:6
The king of Assyria listened to him; and the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried its people captive to Kir, and killed Rezin.
2 Kings 16:9
In the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.
Isaiah 7:1
Tell him, ‘Be careful, and keep calm. Don’t be afraid, neither let your heart be faint because of these two tails of smoking torches, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.
Isaiah 7:4
For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within sixty-five years Ephraim shall be broken in pieces, so that it shall not be a people;
Isaiah 7:8
“Because this people have refused the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah’s son;
Isaiah 8:6
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, a public-domain translation.