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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

PEKAHIAH

pek-a-hi'-a, pe-ka'-ya (peqachyah, "Yah hath opened" (the eyes) (2 Kings 15:23-26); Phakesias; Codex Alexandrinus Phakeias):

1. Accession:

Son of Menahem, and 17th king of Israel. He is said to have succeeded his father in the "50th year of Azariah" (or Uzziah), a synchronism not free from difficulty if his accession is placed in 750-749 (see MENAHEM; UZZIAH). Most date lower, after 738, when an Assyrian inscription makes Menahem pay tribute to Tiglath-pileser (compare 2 Kings 15:19-21).

2. Regicide in Israel:

Pekahiah came to the throne enveloped in the danger which always accompanies the successor of an exceptionally strong ruler, in a country where there is not a settled law of succession. Within two years of his accession he was murdered in a foul manner-the 7th king of Israel who had met his death by violence (the others were Nadab, Elah, Tibni, Jehoram, Zechariah and Shallum). The chief conspirator was Pekah, son of Remaliah, one of his captains, with whom, as agent in the crime, were associated 50 Gileadites. These penetrated into the palace (the Revised Version (British and American) "castle") of the king's house, and put Pekahiah to death, his bodyguards, Argob and Arieh, dying with him. The record, in its close adherence to fact, gives no reason for the king's removal, but it may reasonably be surmised that it was connected with a league which was at this time forming for opposing resistance to the power of Assyria. This league, Pekahiah, preferring his father's policy of tributary vassalage, may have refused to join. If so, the decision cost him his life. The act of treachery and violence is in accordance with all that Hosea tells us of the internal condition of Israel at this time: "They.... devour their judges; all their kings are fallen" (Hosea 7:7).

3. Pekahiah's Character:

The narrative of Pekahiah's short reign contains but a brief notice of his personal character. Like his predecessors, Pekahiah did not depart from the system of worship introduced by Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, "who made Israel to sin." Despite the denunciations of the prophets of the Northern Kingdom (Amos 5:21-27 Hosea 8:1-6), the worship of the calves remained, till the whole was swept away, a few years later, by the fall of the kingdom.

After Pekahiah's murder, the throne was seized by the regicide Pekah.

W. Shaw Caldecott

Strong's Hebrew

6494. Peqachyah -- "Yah has opened (the eyes)," a king of Isr.
... Transliteration: Peqachyah Phonetic Spelling: (pek-akh-yaw') Short Definition:
Pekahiah. Word ... NASB Word Usage Pekahiah (3). Pekahiah. From ...
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Library

How Zachariah Shallum, Menahem Pekahiah and Pekah Took the ...
... How Zachariah Shallum, Menahem Pekahiah And Pekah Took The Government Over The
Israelites; And How Pul And Tiglath-Pileser Made An Expedition Against The ...
/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/chapter 11 how zachariah shallum.htm

Hosea
... We are irresistibly reminded of the rapid succession of kings that followed
Jeroboam"Zechariah his son, Shallum, Menahem, Pekahiah, Pekah. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/mcfadyen/introduction to the old testament/hosea.htm

Kings
... Hosea. Again the perspective is strange. It is not only that brief reigns like
those of Shallum and Pekahiah (2 Kings 15. are dismissed ...
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The Kingdom of Samaria.
... Again, Menahem's son, Pekahiah, was killed by his captain Pekah, a great warrior,
who made an attack upon Ahaz of Judah, and slew one hundred and twenty ...
//christianbookshelf.org/yonge/the chosen people/lesson viii the kingdom of.htm

The Assyrian Captivity
... repenting of the evil that had wrought ruin in his kingdom, continued in "the sins
of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin." Pekahiah and Pekah ...
/.../white/the story of prophets and kings/chapter 23 the assyrian captivity.htm

The Antiquities of the Jews
... How Zachariah Shallum, Menahem Pekahiah And Pekah Took The Government Over The
Israelites; And How Pul And Tiglath-Pileser Made An Expedition Against The ...
//christianbookshelf.org/josephus/the antiquities of the jews/

Appendices
... 783 Zeohariah 742 Shallum 741 Menahem 741 Pays tribute to Tiglath-pileser 738 Pekahiah
737 Pekah 736 Hoshea 733 or 729 Samaria taken by the Assyrians 722. V. ...
/.../sayce/early israel and the surrounding nations/appendices.htm

The Prophet Hosea.
... He became tributary to the Assyrian king Pul, vers.19-21. He was succeeded
by his son Pekahiah, in the fiftieth year of Uzziah. ...
/.../hengstenberg/christology of the old testament/the prophet hosea.htm

The Old Testament and Archeology
... Now, according to the Old Testament, Menahem reigned ten years; his son, Pekahiah,
two years, and Pekah twenty years, a total of thirty-two years. ...
/.../the christian view of the old testament/chapter iv the old testament.htm

Tiglath-Pileser iii. And the Organisation of the Assyrian Empire ...
History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, V 7. <. ...
/.../chapter iitiglath-pileser iii and the.htm

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Pekahiah

it is the Lord that opens

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Pekahiah

(whose eyes Jehovah opened), son and successor of Menahem was the 17th king of the separate kingdom of Israel, B.C. 759-757. After a brief reign of scarcely two years a conspiracy was organized against him by Pekah, who murdered him and seized the throne.

ATS Bible Dictionary

Pekahiah

Son and successor of Menahem king of Israel, was a wicked prince, and reigned but two years. Pekah, son of Remaliah, conspired against him, and killed him in his own palace, 2 Kings 15:22-25.

Easton's Bible Dictionary

The Lord opened his eyes, the son and successor of Menahem on the throne of Israel. He was murdered in the royal palace of Samaria by Pekah, one of the captains of his army (2 Kings 15:23-26), after a reign of two years (B.C. 761-759). He "did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord."

Thesaurus

Pekahiah (4 Occurrences)
... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. PEKAHIAH. ... This league, Pekahiah, preferring his
father's policy of tributary vassalage, may have refused to join. ...
/p/pekahiah.htm - 10k

Pekahiah's (1 Occurrence)
... Multi-Version Concordance Pekahiah's (1 Occurrence). 2 Kings 15:26 Now the
rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did, behold ...
/p/pekahiah's.htm - 6k

Pekahi'ah (3 Occurrences)
Pekahi'ah. Pekahiah, Pekahi'ah. Pekahiah's . ... 2 Kings 15:22 And Menahem slept
with his fathers; and Pekahiah his son reigned in his stead. (See RSV). ...
/p/pekahi'ah.htm - 7k

Menahem (8 Occurrences)
... After a reign of about ten years (BC 771-760) he died, leaving the throne to his
son Pekahiah. His reign was one of cruelty and oppression (2 Kings 15:14-22). ...
/m/menahem.htm - 13k

Pekah (11 Occurrences)
... 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 (BC 758) on ...
/p/pekah.htm - 19k

Tiglathpileser (3 Occurrences)
... tilleghath pilnecer, in 2 Chronicles; Septuagint Algathphellasar; Assyrian,
Tukulti-abal-i-sarra): King of Assyria in the days of Menahem, Pekahiah, and Pekah ...
/t/tiglathpileser.htm - 11k

Tiglath-pileser (6 Occurrences)
... tilleghath pilnecer, in 2 Chronicles; Septuagint Algathphellasar; Assyrian,
Tukulti-abal-i-sarra): King of Assyria in the days of Menahem, Pekahiah, and Pekah ...
/t/tiglath-pileser.htm - 12k

Men'ahem (8 Occurrences)
... of Israel? (See RSV). 2 Kings 15:22 And Menahem slept with his fathers; and
Pekahiah his son reigned in his stead. (See RSV). 2 Kings ...
/m/men'ahem.htm - 8k

Argob (6 Occurrences)
... The context deals with Pekah's conspiracy against Pekahiah; but it is not clear,
owing to the state of the text, whether Argob and his associate Arieh (if ...
/a/argob.htm - 15k

Azariah (47 Occurrences)
... Kings 15 Uzziah is referred to as giving data for the accessions of the northern
kings (15:8, Zechariah; 15:13, Shallum; 15:17, Menahem; 15:23, Pekahiah; 15:27 ...
/a/azariah.htm - 36k

Bible Concordance

Pekahiah (4 Occurrences)

2 Kings 15:22 Menahem slept with his fathers; and Pekahiah his son reigned in his place.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

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.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

2 Kings 15:25 And Pekah the son of Remaliah, his captain, conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the castle of the king's house, by Argob and by Arieh; and with him were fifty men of the Gileadites; and he slew him, and reigned in his stead.
(See NIV)

2 Kings 15:26 Now 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.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

Subtopics

Pekahiah

Pekahiah: King of Israel

Pekahiah: Plotted Against and Killed by Pekah

Regicide of Pekahiah

Related Terms

Pekahiah's (1 Occurrence)

Pekahi'ah (3 Occurrences)

Menahem (8 Occurrences)

Pekah (11 Occurrences)

Tiglathpileser (3 Occurrences)

Tiglath-pileser (6 Occurrences)