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Sep 22, 2022 · King Pekah: An Archaeological Biography. In the fifty-second year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned twenty years. (2Kings 15:27). Pekah ruled over the northern Kingdom of Israel during a turbulent point in history. While a captain in the Israelite army, he seized the throne ...
Jan 4, 2023 · 2 Kings 15:30: Pekah apparently didn’t pay attention to the “eye for an eye” principle. Despite being open-eyed, he didn’t watch for anyone who could usurp him. A man named Hoshea assassinated him and stole the throne, thus ending Pekah’s life. The historian Josephus even indicated that Hoshea had been a close friend of Pekah’s.
Pekah [N] [H] [S] open-eyed, the son of Remaliah a captain in the army of Pekahiah, king of Israel, whom he slew, with the aid of a band of Gileadites, and succeeded (B.C. 758) on the throne ( 2 Kings 15:25 ). Seventeen years after this he entered into an alliance with Rezin, king of Syria, and took part with him in besieging Jerusalem ( 2 ...
29 In the time of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel Beth Maakah, Janoah, Kedesh and Hazor. He took Gilead and Galilee, including all the land of Naphtali, and deported the people to Assyria. 30 Then Hoshea son of Elah conspired against Pekah son of Remaliah. He attacked and assassinated him, and then ...
Pekah King of Israel - In the fifty-second year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekah son of Remaliah became king of Israel in Samaria, and he reigned twenty years. He did evil in the eyes of the LORD. He did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, which he had caused Israel to commit. In the time of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel Beth ...
Pekahiah continued the practices of Jeroboam, which are called the sins of Jeroboam. After a reign of two years, Pekahiah was assassinated in the royal citadel at Samaria by Pekah ben Remaliah, one of his own chief military officers – with the help of fifty men from Gilead. Pekah succeeded Pekahiah as king. References
PEKAH (Heb. פֶּקַח; "He [God] has opened [His eyes]," i.e., given heed), son of Remaliah, king of Israel from 735 to 732 b.c.e. (ii Kings 15:27–32). In the inscriptions of Tiglath-Pileser iii, his name appears in the form Pa-qa-ḥa. It is stated that Pekah was the shalish (apparently, "army commander") of high rank of Pekahiah son of ...
