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Pekah
Sign in to savePekah (, 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.
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- Listeners
- 149
- Total plays
- 513
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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
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Israel
- Occupation
- monarch
- Image
- Phasea-Pekah.jpg
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- date of death
- 0732-01-01
- date of birth
- 0800-01-01
- described by source
- Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- 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.
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