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Then Rezin king of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah, the king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem for war. They laid siege to Ahaz, but they could not defeat him. At that time, Rezin king of Aram recovered Elat for Edom,[a] and he drove the people of Judah away from Elat. Then Edomites[b] came to Elat, and they have lived there to this day.

So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and your son. Come and save me from the hand of the king of Aram and from the hand of the king of Israel, who have come up against me.”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 16:6 The main Hebrew reading is Aram, but Elat had formerly been an Edomite possession not an Aramean possession. In Hebrew script the words Aram and Edom look alike.
  2. 2 Kings 16:6 Variant Arameans