2 Kings 15:23-26

2 Kings 15:23-26

[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.  [24] And he did  that which was evil  in the sight  of the LORD:  he departed  not from the sins  of Jeroboam  the son  of Nebat,  who made Israel  to sin.  [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. [26] And the rest  of the acts  of Pekahiah,  and all that he did,  behold, they are written  in the book  of the chronicles  of the kings  of Israel. 

What does 2 Kings 15:23-26 Mean?

Contextual Meaning

In742 B.C. Pekahiah began his two-year reign (742-740 B.C.). It ended when Pekah, one of his military officers, assassinated him in Samaria, in addition to Argob and Arieh, who were probably Israelite princes ( 2 Kings 15:25).