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Pekah (, Peqaḥ; Paqaḫa [pa-qa-ḫa]; ) was the eighteenth and penultimate king of Israel. He was a captain in the army of king Pekahiah of Israel, whom he killed to become king. Pekah was the son of Remaliah.

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Pekah was a male monarch who held citizenship in the Kingdom of Israel. He was born in 800 BCE and died in 732 BCE. His life and role are documented in the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, the Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron, and the Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus.

The subject is referenced by 256 other encyclopedia articles. A music group also bears the name Pekah, which has accumulated 149 listeners and 513 plays on Last.fm.

Synthesized by Vinony from 13 facts across 5 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Group

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
149
Total plays
513

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Pekah">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

1 total works indexed

  1. WORSHIP INNOVATION AMONG THE PENTECOSTALS IN NIGERIA

    · 2025

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Key facts

Royalty.name
Pekah
Royalty.title
King Of Israel
Royalty.image
Pekah.png
Royalty.caption
Portrait from Promptuarium Iconum Insigniorum (1553) by Guillaume Rouillé
Royalty.succession
King of Israel (Northern Kingdom)
Royalty.predecessor
Pekahiah
Royalty.successor
Hoshea
Royalty.death_date
732 BC
Royalty.father
Remaliah

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Gender
male
Occupation
monarch
Image
Phasea-Pekah.jpg
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date of death
0732-01-01
date of birth
0800-01-01
Sources (2)

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Encyclopedic overview

11 sections
Contents
  • Reign
  • Chronology
  • Controversy
  • C. Lederer and H. J. Cook: a rival reign in Gilead
  • Assyrian references
  • Pekah as commander under Pekahiah
  • Chronological note
  • See also
  • Notes
  • References
  • Sources

Pekah (, Peqaḥ; Paqaḫa [pa-qa-ḫa]; ) was the eighteenth and penultimate king of Israel. He was a captain in the army of king Pekahiah of Israel, whom he killed to become king. Pekah was the son of Remaliah.

Pekah became king in the fifty-second and last year of Uzziah, king of Judah.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pekah” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.