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Then Pekah the son of Remaliah, his officer, conspired against him and struck him in Samaria, in ^(C1)the castle of the king's house with Argob and Arieh; and with him were fifty men of the Gileadites, and he killed him and became king in his place.

Now as for the rest of the acts of Pekahiah and everything that he did, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.

In ^(C1)the fifty-second year of Azariah king of Judah, ^(C2)Pekah the son of Remaliah became king over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned for twenty years.

He did evil in the sight of the LORD; he did not desist from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, into which he misled Israel.

In the days of Pekah king of Israel, ^(F1)(C1)Tiglath-pileser the king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and ^(C2)he led ^(F2)their populations into exile to Assyria.

And Hoshea the son of Elah formed a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and struck him and put him to death, and he became king in his place, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.

Now as for the rest of the acts of Pekah and all that he did, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.

In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel, Jotham the son of ^(F1)Uzziah king of Judah became king.

^(C1)He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok.

^(C1)He did what was right in the sight of the LORD; he acted in accordance with everything that his father Uzziah had done.

Only ^(C1)the high places were not eliminated; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. ^(C2)He built the upper gate of the house of the LORD.

Now as for the rest of the acts of Jotham which he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

In those days ^(C1)the LORD began to send Rezin the king of Aram and Pekah the son of Remaliah against Judah.

And Jotham ^(F1)lay down with his fathers, and he was buried with his fathers in the city of his father David; and his son Ahaz became king in his place.