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2 Kings 15:37 רְצִ֖ין Rezin

(In those days the LORD began to send Rezin king of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah against Judah.)

Here: King of Aram-Damascus, about 750–732 BC, and the last independent king of Damascus. He led a regional coalition against Assyria.

2 Kings 16:5 רְצִ֣ין Rezin

Then Rezin king of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to wage war against Jerusalem. They besieged Ahaz but could not overcome him.

2 Kings 16:6 רְצִ֨ין Rezin

At that time Rezin king of Aram recovered Elath for Aram, drove out the men of Judah, and sent the Edomites into Elath, where they live to this day.

Here: Rezin, the last king of Aram-Damascus (about 750–732 BC). He led the alliance against Judah in verse 5. Some scholars think his name here was added later (see textual notes).

2 Kings 16:9 רְצִ֖ין Rezin

So the king of Assyria responded to him, marched up to Damascus, and captured it. He took its people to Kir as captives and put Rezin to death.

Here: King of Aram-Damascus, who with Pekah of Israel had besieged Jerusalem (v. 5). Assyrian texts call him Raḫiānu, and he was the last king of independent Damascus.

Ezra 2:48 רְצִ֥ין Rezin

the descendants of Rezin, the descendants of Nekoda, the descendants of Gazzam,

Nehemiah 7:50 רְצִ֖ין Rezin

the descendants of Reaiah, the descendants of Rezin, the descendants of Nekoda,

Isaiah 7:1 רְצִ֣ין Rezin

Now in the days that Ahaz son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, was king of Judah, Rezin king of Aram marched up to wage war against Jerusalem. He was accompanied by Pekah son of Remaliah the king of Israel, but he could not overpower the city.

Here: King of Aram-Damascus, called Raḫiānu in Assyrian records. He is named first as the leading partner of the alliance.

Isaiah 7:4 רְצִ֥ין Rezin

and say to him: Calm down and be quiet. Do not be afraid or disheartened over these two smoldering stubs of firewood—over the fierce anger of Rezin and Aram and of the son of Remaliah.

Here: King of Aram-Damascus (Syria), who led the anti-Assyrian alliance. Assyrian records call him Raḫianu.

Isaiah 7:8 רְצִ֑ין Rezin

For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. Within sixty-five years Ephraim will be shattered as a people.

Here: King of Aram-Damascus (Assyrian records call him Raḫianu). He led the coalition against Judah. The chain ends at him: at the top of this frightening alliance stands one mortal king and nothing more.

Isaiah 8:6 רְצִ֖ין Rezin

“Because this people has rejected the gently flowing waters of Shiloah and rejoiced in Rezin and the son of Remaliah,

Here: King of Aram-Damascus, the leader of the anti-Assyrian coalition that was then threatening Jerusalem (7:1).

Isaiah 9:11 רְצִ֖ין Rezin

The LORD has raised up the foes of Rezin against him and joined his enemies together.

Here: Rezin was king of Aram-Damascus and Israel's partner in the war against Judah (Isaiah 7). His adversaries were above all Assyria. The ally Israel relied on had enemies of his own, and those enemies would now crush Israel too.