BRAGADAYJAH 1103
Pekah Assassinates Pekahiah
Next Pekah the son of Remaliah together with Argob, Arieh and fifty
other men conspired against Pekahiah and slew him in the king’s house, and
reigned in his stead. So Pekahiah died and was buried. And in the fifty second
year of the reign of King Azariah of Judah, Pekah began to reign over Israel
and he reigned twenty years during which time he continued to do that which was
evil in the sight of the Lord, having departed not from the sin of Jeroboam who
made Israel to sin. And during his reign Tiglath- pilser king of Assyria
invaded and took Ijon, Abel-beth-maachah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead and
Galilee together with all the land of Naphtali and carried the people away captives
to Assyria. And after that Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against
Pekah and smote him and killed him and reigned in his stead in the twentieth
year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.
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