2 Könige 15:25

Schlachter Bibel

Pekach aber, der Sohn Remaljas, sein Hauptmann, machte eine Verschwörung wider ihn und erschlug ihn zu Samaria, in der Burg des königlichen Hauses, ebenso Argob und Arje. Mit ihm aber waren fünfzig Mann von den Söhnen der Gileaditer. Und er tötete ihn und ward König an seiner Statt.

Parallel Translations

Lutherbible (1912)
Und es machte Pekah, der Sohn Remaljas, sein Ritter, einen Bund wider ihn und schlug ihn zu Samaria im Palast des Königshauses samt Argob und Arje, und mit ihm waren fünfzig Mann von den Kindern Gileads, und tötete ihn und ward König an seiner Statt.

Bible Verse Review
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am 3245, bc 759

Pekah: 2 Kings 15:27, 2 Chronicles 28:6

a captain: 2 Kings 9:5, 1 Kings 16:9

conspired: 2 Kings 15:10, 2 Kings 9:14

with Argob: From the contstruction of the Hebrew Text, it would appear that Argob and Arieh were slain with the king, and that the fifty Gileadites were conspirators with Pekah.

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 8:15 - so that he died 2 Kings 14:19 - they made 2 Kings 15:30 - made 2 Kings 21:23 - General Jeremiah 41:7 - slew Hosea 7:7 - devoured

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his,.... The word signifies a "third" man, the third to the king, as some think; Josephus a calls him a "chiliarch", one that had the command of a thousand men:

conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the king's house; Josephus b says it was at a banquet:

with Argob, and Arieh; whom, according to Abarbinel, Pekah slew with the king, being mighty men, who were always about him; but they seem rather to be conspirators with Pekah, and assisting to him in smiting the king; the former of these, Ben Gersom thinks, was governor of Argob, a country on the other side Jordan, and the latter had his name from his fortitude, which signifies a lion:

and with him fifty men of the Gileadites; which may seem to strengthen the above notion concerning Argob, since the Gileadites were of the same side of Jordan, and were near Argob, see Deuteronomy 3:13

and he killed him, and reigned in his room, as his father killed Shallum, and reigned in his stead.

a Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 9. c. 11. sect. 1.) b Ibid.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A captain of his - A mere “captain,” a person, therefore, of very moderate rank. The low birth of Pekah is probably glanced at in Isaiah’s favorite designation of him as “Remaliah’s son” Isaiah 7:4-5, Isaiah 7:9; Isaiah 8:6.

From the fact that Pekah employed Gileadites to carry out his designs, it has been conjectured that he himself belonged to the trans-Jordanic region.

In the palace of the king’s house - Rather, “In the tower of the king’s palace;” or possibly “in the harem of the king’s palace” (1 Kings 16:18 note).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Kings 15:25. Smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the king's house, with Argob and Arieh — Who Argob and Arieh were we know not; some make them men, some make them statues. Pekah had fifty Gileadites in the conspiracy with him.