Pekah King of Israel

²⁷ In the fifty-second year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekah^(A) son of Remaliah^(B) became king of Israel in Samaria, and he reigned twenty years.

The Sign of Immanuel

7 When Ahaz^(A) son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, was king of Judah, King Rezin^(B) of Aram^(C) and Pekah^(D) son of Remaliah^(E) king of Israel marched up to fight against Jerusalem, but they could not overpower it.

⁴ Say to him, ‘Be careful, keep calm^(A) and don’t be afraid.^(B) Do not lose heart^(C) because of these two smoldering stubs^(D) of firewood—because of the fierce anger^(E) of Rezin and Aram and of the son of Remaliah.^(F)

Pekahiah King of Israel

²³ In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekahiah son of Menahem became king of Israel in Samaria, and he reigned two years.

⁶ In one day Pekah^(A) son of Remaliah killed a hundred and twenty thousand soldiers in Judah^(B)—because Judah had forsaken the Lord, the God of their ancestors.

³⁷ (In those days the Lord began to send Rezin^(A) king of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah against Judah.)

²⁵ One of his chief officers, Pekah^(A) son of Remaliah, conspired against him. Taking fifty men of Gilead with him, he assassinated^(B) Pekahiah, along with Argob and Arieh, in the citadel of the royal palace at Samaria. So Pekah killed Pekahiah and succeeded him as king.

Shallum King of Israel

¹³ Shallum son of Jabesh became king in the thirty-ninth year of Uzziah king of Judah, and he reigned in Samaria^(A) one month.