Pekah in Wikipedia
Pekah ("open-eyed"; Latin: Phacee) was king of Israel. He
was a captain in the army of king Pekahiah of Israel, whom
he killed to become king.[1] Pekah was the son of Remaliah
(Latin: Romelia).
Pekah became king in the fifty-second and last year of
Azariah, king of Judah, and he reigned twenty years.[2] In
the second year of his reign Jotham became king of Judah,
and reigned for sixteen years.[3] Jotham was succeeded by
his son, Ahaz in the seventeenth year of Pekah's reign.[4]
William F. Albright has dated his reign to 737 – 732 BC,
while E. R. Thiele, following H. J. Cook.[5] Carl
Lederer,[6] 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.[7] This
explanation is consistent with evidence of the Assyrian
chronicles, which agree with Menahem being king in 743 BC or
742 BC[8] 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.[9]...
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