the exaltation of the Lord
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
REMALIAH.The father of Pekah (2Ki_15:25 ff; 2Ki_16:1; 2Ki_16:5, 2Ch_28:6, Isa_7:1 ff; Isa_8:8).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Father of the usurper Pekah (2Ki_15:25-37). Isaiah (Isa_7:4-9) designates the usurper as "the son of Remaliah," to mark that, belonging to a family alien from David's, to whom alone God promised the kingdom, he cannot succeed against the heir of David.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Remali'ah. (protected by Jehovah). The father of Pekah, captain of Pekahiah; king of Israel, who slew his master, and usurped his throne. 2Ki_15:25-37; 2Ki_16:1; 2Ki_16:5; 2Ch_28:6; Isa_7:1-9; Isa_8:6. (B.C. 756).
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
rem-a-lı̄?a (רמליהוּ, remalyāhū, ?whom Yahweh has adorned?): The father of Pekah (2Ki_15:25 ff; Isa_7:4 ff; Isa_8:6). The contemptuous allusion to Pekah as ?the son of Remaliah? in Isa_7:4 (similarly ?the son of Kish,? 1Sa_10:11) may be a slur on Remaliah's humble origin.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Remaliah
(Heb. Renmalyahu, רְמִלְיָהוּ, protected of Jehovah; Sept. ῾Ραμελίος or ῾Ρομελίος, v. r. ῾Ρομελία), the father of Pekah, king of Israel (2Ki_15:25; 2Ki_15:27; 2Ki_15:30; 2Ki_15:32; 2Ki_15:37; 2Ki_16:1; 2Ki_16:5; 2Ch_28:6), probably a man whose character was such as to make his name a reproach to his descendants (Isa_7:4-5; Isa_8:6). B.C. ante 756. SEE PEKAH.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.