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2 Kings 15:25
Then his officer, Pekah son of Remaliah, conspired against him along with Argob, Arieh, and fifty men of Gilead. And at the citadel of the king’s palace in Samaria, Pekah struck down and killed Pekahiah and reigned in his place.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Pekah, the king’s officer, acts against King Pekahiah during a moment of royal instability in Samaria.
The words — וַ/יִּקְשֹ֣ר (va/i.yik.Shor) literally means “and he conspired” against the ruler, while וַ/יַּכֵּ֨/הוּ (va/i.ya.Ke./hu) renders “and he struck him down” at the citadel.
The thread — The narrative places this regicide in Samaria, 2 Chronicles 28:6 records Pekah’s later massacre of 120,000 Judahites for their abandonment of the LORD, and 1 Kings 16:9 documents an earlier palace conspiracy against King Elah.
Why it lands — The text demands recognition that political violence replaces covenant loyalty, leaving the king’s deeds recorded only in secular chronicles rather than divine approval.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his, conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the king’s house, with Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men of the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his room.
Cross-references
- 2 Chronicles 28:6 For in one day Pekah son of Remaliah killed 120,000 valiant men in Judah. This happened because they had forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers.
- 1 Kings 16:9 However, while Elah was in Tirzah getting drunk in the house of Arza the steward of his household there, Elah’s servant Zimri, the commander of half his chariots, conspired against him.
- 2 Kings 9:5 and when he arrived, the army commanders were sitting there. “I have a message for you, commander,” he said. “For which of us?” asked Jehu. “For you, commander,” he replied.
- 2 Kings 9:14 Thus Jehu son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi, conspired against Joram. (Now Joram and all Israel had been defending Ramoth-gilead against Hazael king of Aram,
- 2 Kings 15:10 Then Shallum son of Jabesh conspired against Zechariah, struck him down and killed him in front of the people, and reigned in his place.
- 2 Kings 15:27 In the fifty-second year of Azariah’s reign over Judah, Pekah son of Remaliah became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria twenty years.