Ruler · 801 – 740 BCE

Pekahiah

Lived 801 – 740 BCE; monarch. King of Israel of Kingdom of Israel (Samaria), 742 BCE – 740 BCE.

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Lived: 801 BCE – 740 BCE; 61 years
In office: 2 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 18th of 20 dated reigns · 931 BCE – 722 BCE

14 before

Zechariah of Israel753 BCE – 752 BCE

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 742 BCE – 740 BCE · 2 years · came to it aged 59

Came to it: the child of the ruler before, on record
Left it: killedread from the ruler's own article

After a reign of two years, Pekahiah was assassinated in the royal citadel at Samaria by Pekah ben Remaliah, one of his own chief military officers – with the help of fifty men from Gilead.

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