Remaliah in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Father of the usurper Pekah (2 Kings 15:25-37). Isaiah (Isaiah 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.

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