⁵ Then Rezin^(A) king of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel marched up to fight against Jerusalem and besieged Ahaz, but they could not overpower him.

⁶ At that time, Rezin^(A) king of Aram recovered Elath^(B) for Aram by driving out the people of Judah. Edomites then moved into Elath and have lived there to this day.

⁵ Therefore the Lord his God delivered him into the hands of the king of Aram.^(A) The Arameans defeated him and took many of his people as prisoners and brought them to Damascus.

He was also given into the hands of the king of Israel, who inflicted heavy casualties on him. ⁶ In one day Pekah^(B) son of Remaliah killed a hundred and twenty thousand soldiers in Judah^(C)—because Judah had forsaken the Lord, the God of their ancestors. ⁷ Zikri, an Ephraimite warrior, killed Maaseiah the king’s son, Azrikam the officer in charge of the palace, and Elkanah, second to the king. ⁸ The men of Israel took captive from their fellow Israelites who were from Judah^(D) two hundred thousand wives, sons and daughters. They also took a great deal of plunder, which they carried back to Samaria.^(E)