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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.