Event

Reign of Pekahiah

Name: Reign of Pekahiah
Location: Samaria

Date:: 760 BC
Duration:: 2 years

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Part of 1

Northern Kingdom (Israel)

Preceded by 1

Reign of Uzziah

Followed by 2

Death of Pekahiah Reign of Jotham

Participants 1

Pekahiah

Locations 1

Samaria

Described in 4

Reference	Verse
2 Kings 15:23	In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned two years.
2 Kings 15:24	And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
2 Kings 15:25	But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his, conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the king’s house, with Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men of the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his room.
2 Kings 15:26	And the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

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