Ruler · 801 – 732 BCE

Pekah

Lived 801 – 732 BCE; monarch. King of Israel of Kingdom of Israel (Samaria), 740 BCE – 732 BCE.

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Lived: 801 BCE – 732 BCE; 69 years
In office: 8 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Kingdom of Israel (Samaria)
Left it: killed; the ruler's own article

King of Israel

Kingdom of Israel (Samaria) · the 19th of 20 dated reigns · 931 BCE – 722 BCE

15 before

Shallum752 BCE

Menahem752 BCE – 742 BCE

Pekahiah742 BCE – 740 BCE

Pekah740 BCE – 732 BCE

Hoshea732 BCE – 722 BCE

killed, executed or dead in battledied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 740 BCE – 732 BCE · 8 years · came to it aged 61

Left it: killedread from the ruler's own article

Soon afterwards, this Pekah was assassinated by Hoshea ben Elah (that is, Hoshea the son of Elah), a captain from Pekah's own army, who then took the throne.

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