Study it in the app“Pekah son of Remaliah, his captain, conspired against him and struck him in Samaria, in the citadel of the house of the king, with Argob and with Arieh; and with him were fifty men of the sons of the Gileadites; and he put him to death and reigned in his place.”
Pekahפֶּקַחsonבֶּןof Remaliah,רְמַלְיָהוּhis captain,שָׁלִישׁוֹconspiredוַיִּקְשֹׁרagainst himעָלָיוand struck himוַיַּכֵּהוּin Samaria,בְשֹׁמְרוֹןin the citadelבְּאַרְמוֹןof the houseבֵּיתof the king,הַמֶּלֶךְwith Argobאֶת אַרְגֹּבand with Arieh;וְאֶת הָאַרְיֵהand with himוְעִמּוֹwere fiftyחֲמִשִּׁיםmenאִישׁof the sonsמִבְּנֵיof the Gileadites;גִלְעָדִיםand he put him to deathוַיְמִיתֵהוּand reignedוַיִּמְלֹךְin his place.תַּחְתָּיו
Pekah
Pekah: a name meaning "open (the eyes)," "one who sees." Captain of King Pekahiah; he killed him and reigned twenty years in Samaria (2 Kings 15:25-31). He attacked Judah together with Rezin of Aram (Isaiah 7:1).
Where else “pekach” appearsson
The male born of a father and mother; in the plural, also sons and daughters.
Where else “ben” appearsRemaliah
Remaliah: a name the lexicon explains as "YHWH has adorned." Father of Pekah, king of Israel (2 Kings 15:25). In Isaiah 7 Pekah is called simply "the son of Remaliah."
Where else “remalyahu” appearsofficer
A high army commander.
Where else “shalish” appearsconspire
To join secretly with others to bring down someone in authority.
Where else “yikshor” appearsstrike dead
To strike dead, kill.
Where else “yake” appearsSamaria
See it on the mapWhere else “shomron” appearscitadel, fortress
Citadel, fortified palace: the high and strongest part of a city or of the king's house.
Where else “armon” appearshouse
A building to live in, or an enclosed place to keep something or someone.
Where else “bet” appearsking
A king who rules a people.
Where else “melech” appearsArgob
Argob: a region of Bashan, east of the Jordan, with sixty cities. The name means "stony."
Where else “argov” appearsArieh
Arieh. A name meaning "lion." It is mentioned beside Argob in the account of the death of King Pekahiah (2 Kings 15:25); the text does not make clear who he was.
Where else “arye” appearsfifty
Fifty.
Where else “chamishim” appearsman
An adult male person; also each man of a people, a trade or a place.
Where else “ish” appearsGileadite
Gileadite: a descendant of Gilead, or an inhabitant of the region of Gilead.
Where else “giladim” appearskill
To kill someone.
Where else “yemite” appearsreign
To be king of a people, or to begin ruling it as king.
Where else “yimloch” appears“With Argob and with Arieh”: the Hebrew does not make clear whether they are two men killed together with the king, two who helped Pekah, or names of places.
Samaria
Today: northern West Bank (Sebastia, Samaria hills)
A city and region in central Israel, between Judea and Galilee.
Omri founded the city as capital of the northern kingdom (1 Kgs 16:24); the Assyrians conquered it (2 Kgs 17:6). Jesus passed through the region, and Philip preached there (John 4:4; Acts 8:5).
24He did what was evil in the eyes of YHWH; he did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, by which he made Israel sin.
25 · This verse (above)
26The rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did, there they are, written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
