For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, [which were] all valiant men; because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers.
Ver. 6. For Pekah the son of Remaliah.] Here was aliud ex alio malum: the other evil from other man, but these hammers of the Most High did but beat upon cold iron. See 2 Kings 15:27 .