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One of his commanders, Pekah, son of Remaliah, conspired against him. He and 50 men of Gilead struck Pekahiah, along with Argob and Arieh, in Samaria, in the fortress of the king's house. He [the commander Pekah] killed him and reigned in his place.
In the 52nd year of Azariah (Hebr. Azarjah) [Uzziah], king of Judah, Pekah, son of Remaliah, began to reign over Israel in Samaria and reigned 20 years.
In the days of Pekah, king of Israel, Tiglath-Pileser, king of Assyria, came and took Ijon, Abel-Beth-Maacha, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and he carried them away captive to Assyria.
And Hoshea, the son of Elah, conspired against Pekah, the son of Remaliah, and struck him down and killed him, and reigned in his place in the twentieth year of Jotham, the son of Uzziah (Hebr. Uzzijahos).
The rest of the acts of Pekah, and what he did, behold, they are written in the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
[Jotham was 25 years old when he became king and reigned over Judah (the Southern Kingdom) for 18 years (759-743 BC). He was co-regent with his leprous father until 742 BC, see .] In the second year of Pekah, son of Remaliah, king of Israel [in the north], Jotham, son of Uzziah, king of Judah, began to reign [in the Southern Kingdom].
In those days the Lord (Yahweh) began to send Rezin, king of Aram, and Pekah, son of Remaliah, against Judah.
[Ahaz was 23 years old when he became king and first reigned with Jotham from 735 to 732 BC, then alone for 16 years from 732 to 715 BC. In the 17th year of Pekahiah, son of Remaliah, Ahaz, son of Jotham, king of Judah, began to reign.]
Then King Rezin of Aram (Syria) [740-733 BC] and King Pekah, son of Remaliah, of Israel [Northern Kingdom, 752-732 BC] came up to Jerusalem to wage war, and they besieged Ahaz but could not overcome him. []
Pechah, son of Remaliah, killed 120,000 men of Judah in a single day, all men of military age. This happened because they had forsaken the Lord (Yahweh), the God of their fathers.
It happened in the days of Ahaz, son of Jotham, son of Uzziah (Hebr. Uzzijaho), king of Judah [735-715 BC], that King Rezin of Aram (Syria) [740-733 BC] and King Pekah, son of Remaliah, of Israel [Northern Kingdom, 752-732 BC] went up to Jerusalem to wage war against it. [; ]
