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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Easton, Matthew George (1897). Easton's Bible Dictionary (New and revised ed.). Nelson and Sons. : Missing or empty |title= ( help ) Pekah ("open-eyed"), was king of Israel , the son of Remaliah, and a captain in the army of Pekahiah , king of Israel.¹ Albright has dated his reign to 737 - 732 BC , while Thiele offers the dates 740 - 732 BC .² With the aid of a band of Gileadites , he slew Pekahiah and assumed the throne ( 2 Kings 15:25). Seventeen years after this he entered into an alliance with Rezin , king of the Arameans , and took part with him in a siege of Jerusalem (2 Kings 15:37; 16:5). But Tiglath-Pileser III , who was in alliance with Ahaz , king of Judah , came up against Pekah, and carried away as captives many of the inhabitants of his kingdom (2 Kings 15:29; Tiglath-Pileser also records this act in one of his inscriptions). This was the beginning of the Captivity . Soon after this Pekah was put to death by Hoshea , the son of Elah, who usurped the throne (2 Kings 15:30; 16:1-9; compare Isaiah 7:16; 8:4; 9:12), although Tiglath-Pileser claims in an inscription to have replaced Pekah with Hoshea himself. He is supposed by some to have been the "shepherd" mentioned in Zechariah 11:16. v t e³

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of Israel Pekah from "Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum " Pekah ("open-eyed"; ) was king of Israel . He was a captain in the army of king Pekahiah of Israel, whom he killed to become king. Pekah was the son of Remaliah ( ). Pekah became king in the fifty-second and last year of Azariah , king of Judah , and he reigned twenty years. In the second year of his reign Jotham became king of Judah, and reigned for sixteen years. Jotham was succeeded by his son, Ahaz in the seventeenth year of Pekah's reign. Albright has dated his reign to 737 – 732 BC, while E. Cook and Carl Lederer, held that Pekah set up in Gilead a rival reign to Menahem's Samaria-based kingdom in Nisan of 752 BC, becoming sole ruler on his assassination of Menahem's son Pekahiah in 740/739 BC and dying in 732/731 BC. This explanation is consistent with evidence of the Assyrian chronicles, which agree with Menahem being king in 743 BC or 742 BC and Hoshea being king from 732 BC. When Pekah allied with Rezin , king of Aram to attack Ahaz , the king of Judah , Ahaz appealed to Tiglath-Pileser III , the king of Assyria , for help. This the Assyrian king obliged, but Judah became a tributory of the Assyrian king. 2 Kings 15:25 2 Kings 15:27 2 Kings 15:32–33 2 Kings 15:38 and 16:1 ; H. Carl Lederer, Die biblische Zeitrechnung vom Auszuge aus Ägypten bis zum Beginne der babylonischen Gefangenschaft , 1887, cited in Cook, Pekah 126, n. 1. Mitchell, "Israel and Judah until the Revolt of Jehu (931–841 B.C.)" in Cambridge Ancient History 3 , Part 1, ed.

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of Israel Pekah from Guillaume Rouillé 's Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum Pekah ( / ˈ p iː . k ɑː / ; , Pẹqaḥ; "open-eyed"; ) was king of Israel . He was a captain in the army of king Pekahiah of Israel, whom he killed to become king. Pekah was the son of Remaliah ( / r ɛ m . ə . ˈ l aɪ . ə / ; ). Pekah became king in the fifty-second and last year of Azariah , king of Judah, and he reigned twenty years. In the second year of his reign Jotham became king of Judah, and reigned for sixteen years. Jotham was succeeded by his son, Ahaz in the seventeenth year of Pekah's reign. Albright has dated his reign to 737 – 732 BC, while E. Cook and Carl Lederer, held that Pekah set up in Gilead a rival reign to Menahem 's Samaria-based kingdom in Nisan of 752 BC, becoming sole ruler on his assassination of Menahem's son Pekahiah in 740/739 BC and dying in 732/731 BC. This explanation is consistent with evidence of the Assyrian chronicles, which agree with Menahem being king in 743 BC or 742 BC and Hoshea being king from 732 BC. When Pekah allied with Rezin , king of Aram to attack Ahaz , the king of Judah , Ahaz appealed to Tiglath-Pileser III , the king of Assyria , for help. This the Assyrian king obliged, but Judah became a tributory of the Assyrian king. Carl Lederer, Die biblische Zeitrechnung vom Auszuge aus Ägypten bis zum Beginne der babylonischen Gefangenschaft , 1887, cited in Cook, Pekah 126, n. 1. Mitchell, "Israel and Judah until the Revolt of Jehu (931–841 B.C.)" in Cambridge Ancient History 3 , Part 1, ed.

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Pekah ( Peqaḥ ; / ˈ p ɛ k ɑː , ˈ p iː -/ ) was the eighteenth and penultimate king of Israel . He was a captain in the army of king Pekahiah of Israel, whom he killed to become king. Pekah was the son of Remaliah. Pekah became king in the fifty-second and last year of Uzziah , king of Judah, and he reigned twenty years. In the second year of his reign Jotham became king of Judah, and reigned for sixteen years. Jotham was succeeded by his son, Ahaz in the seventeenth year of Pekah's reign. Albright has dated his reign to 737 – 732 BC, while E. Cook and Carl Lederer, held that Pekah set up in Gilead a rival reign to Menahem 's Samaria-based kingdom in Nisan of 752 BC, becoming sole ruler on his assassination of Menahem's son Pekahiah in 740/739 BC and dying in 732/731 BC. This explanation is consistent with evidence of the Assyrian chronicles, which agree with Menahem being king in 743 BC or 742 BC and Hoshea being king from 732 BC. When Pekah allied with Rezin , king of Aram to attack Ahaz , the king of Judah , Ahaz appealed to Tiglath-Pileser III , the king of Assyria , for help. Carl Lederer, Die biblische Zeitrechnung vom Auszuge aus Ägypten bis zum Beginne der babylonischen Gefangenschaft , 1887, cited in Cook, Pekah 126, n. 1. Mitchell, "Israel and Judah until the Revolt of Jehu (931–841 B.C.)" in Cambridge Ancient History 3 , Part 1, ed. There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or templates on this page, but the references will not show without a template or template (see the help page ).

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18th and penultimate king of Israel Pekah ( / ˈ p ɛ k ɑː , ˈ p iː -/ , Peqaḥ ; Paqaḫa [ pa-qa-ḫa ]; ) was the eighteenth and penultimate king of Israel . He was a captain in the army of king Pekahiah of Israel, whom he killed to become king. Pekah was the son of Remaliah. Pekah became king in the fifty-second and last year of Uzziah , king of Judah, and he reigned twenty years. In the second year of his reign Jotham became king of Judah, and reigned for sixteen years. Jotham was succeeded by his son, Ahaz in the seventeenth year of Pekah's reign. Albright has dated his reign to 737–732 BC, while E. Cook and Carl Lederer, held that Pekah set up in Gilead a rival reign to Menahem 's Samaria-based kingdom in Nisan of 752 BC, becoming sole ruler on his assassination of Menahem's son Pekahiah in 740/739 BC and dying in 732/731 BC. This explanation is consistent with evidence of the Assyrian chronicles, which agree with Menahem being king in 743 BC or 742 BC and Hoshea being king from 732 BC. When Pekah allied with Rezin , king of Aram , to attack Ahaz , the king of Judah , Ahaz appealed to Tiglath-Pileser III , the king of Assyria , for help. Carl Lederer, Die biblische Zeitrechnung vom Auszuge aus Ägypten bis zum Beginne der babylonischen Gefangenschaft , 1887, cited in Cook, Pekah 126, n. 1. Mitchell, "Israel and Judah until the Revolt of Jehu (931–841 B.C.)" in Cambridge Ancient History 3 , Part 1, ed. There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or templates on this page, but the references will not show without a template or template (see the help page ).

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18th and penultimate king of Israel Pekah ( / ˈ p ɛ k ɑː , ˈ p iː -/ , Hebrew : פֶּקַח Peqaḥ ; Akkadian : 𒉺𒅗𒄩 Paqaḫa [ pa-qa-ḫa ]; Latin : Phacee ) was the eighteenth and penultimate king of Israel . He was a captain in the army of king Pekahiah of Israel, whom he killed to become king. Pekah was the son of Remaliah. Pekah became king in the fifty-second and last year of Uzziah , king of Judah. Albright has dated his reign to 737–732 BC, while E. Cook and Carl Lederer, held that Pekah set up in Gilead a rival reign to Menahem 's Samaria-based kingdom in Nisan of 752 BC, becoming sole ruler on his assassination of Menahem's son Pekahiah in 740/739 BC and dying in 732/731 BC. This explanation is consistent with evidence of the Assyrian chronicles, which agree with Menahem being king in 743 BC or 742 BC and Hoshea being king from 732 BC. When Pekah allied with Rezin , king of Aram , to attack Ahaz , the king of Judah , Ahaz appealed to Tiglath-Pileser III , the king of Assyria , for help. Carl Lederer, Die biblische Zeitrechnung vom Auszuge aus Ägypten bis zum Beginne der babylonischen Gefangenschaft , 1887, cited in Cook, Pekah 126, n. 1. Mitchell, "Israel and Judah until the Revolt of Jehu (931–841 B.C.)" in Cambridge Ancient History 3 , Part 1, ed. There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or templates on this page, but the references will not show without a template or template (see the help page ).

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