Pekah
In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglathpileser king
of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abelbethmaachah, and Janoah,
and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land
of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria....
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And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the
son of Uzziah, king of Judah, [that] Rezin the king of Syria,
and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward
Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it....
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In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel
began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign....
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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 b...
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-Son of Remaliah
-Captain of the army of Israel
2Ki 15:25
-Conspires against and assassinates King Pekahiah
2Ki 15:25
-Is made king of Israel
2Ki 15:27
-Victorious in war with Judah
2Ch 28:5,6
-Is plotted against and killed by Hoshea
2Ki 15:30,31
-Prophecies against
Isa 7:1-16; 8:4-10...
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(open-eyed), son of Remaliah, originally a captain of
Pekaiah king of Israel, murdered his master seized the
throne, and became the 18th sovereign of the northern
kingdom, B.C. 757-740. Under his predecessors Israel had
been much weakened through the payment of enormous tribute
to the Assyrians (see especially) 2Ki 15:20 and by internal
wars ...
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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 Kings 15:37; 16:5). ...
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frontHOSHEA.) Son Of Remaliah. "Captain" and "aide de camp"
(shalish) of Pekahiah, king of Israel, whom he murdered, as
also his aides de camp Argob and Ariyeh. Became king by the
help of 50 Gileadites of the king's bodyguard; perhaps Pekah
was a Gileadite himself; energy for good or evil
characterized the hardy highlanders of Gilead, as Jepht...
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he that opens; that is at liberty...
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pe'-ka (peqach, "opening" (of the eyes) (2 Ki 15:25-31);
Phakee):
1. Accession:
Son of Remaliah, and 18th king of Israel. Pekah murdered his
predecessor, Pekahiah, and seized the reins of power (2 Ki
15:25). His usurpation of the throne is said to have taken
place in the 52nd year of Uzziah, and his reign to have lasted
for 20 years (2 Ki 15:2...
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