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25 An officer of Pekahiah's forces, Pekah son of Remaliah, plotted with fifty men from Gilead, assassinated Pekahiah in the palace's inner fortress[a] in Samaria, and succeeded him as king.

26 Everything else that Pekahiah did is recorded in The History of the Kings of Israel.

King Pekah of Israel

27 In the fifty-second year of the reign of King Uzziah of Judah, Pekah son of Remaliah became king of Israel, and he ruled in Samaria for twenty years.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 15:25 Hebrew has two additional words, the meaning of which is unclear.

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