Pekahiah

Pekahiah (; Pəqaḥyā; "YHWH has opened the eyes"; ) was the seventeenth and third-from-last king of Israel and the son of Menahem, whom he succeeded, and the second and last king of Israel from the House of Gadi. He ruled from the capital of Samaria.

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Vinony files it under 740s BC deaths, 8th-century BCE kings of Israel and 8th-century BC murdered monarchs.

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Royalty.name: Pekaias
Royalty.title: King Of Israel
Royalty.image: Pekahiah.png
Royalty.caption: Pekahiah from Guillaume Rouillé's Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum
Royalty.succession: King of Israel (Northern Kingdom)
Royalty.predecessor: Menahem
Royalty.father: Menahem
Royalty.successor: Pekah

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Instance of: human
Gender: male
Citizenship: Kingdom of Israel
Place of death: Samaria
Father: Menahem
Occupation: monarch
Image: Phacea-Pekahiah.jpg

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date of birth: 0800-01-01
date of death: 0740-00-00
described by source: Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron

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Pekahiah became king in the fiftieth year of the reign of Uzziah, king of Judah. William F. Albright has dated his reign to 738–736 BCE, while E. R. Thiele offers the dates 742–740 BCE.

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