Pekahiah
- Dates
- 767–740 BC
Name means "Yahweh has opened the eyes." He is the son of Menahem and the 18th king of the northern kingdom of Israel. He reigns for 2 years. He is evil like his father and follows the calf worship of Jeroboam I. He is assassinated by Pekah.
In detail
Pekahiah, name means "Yahweh has opened (the eyes)." The 18th king of Israel, if Tibni is included in the count. He reigned at Samaria for 2 years (c. 742—c. 740 b.c.), but nothing more is known of him except that he was evil like his father, Menahem, and followed the calf worship of Jeroboam I (2 Ki 15:22—24). He was assassinated by Pekah, an army officer, who then usurped the throne for himself (v 25).
Bible passages
- 2 Kings 15:23
In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned two years.
- 2 Kings 15:25
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.
Text of the King James Version.
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