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Pekahiah
Sign in to savePekahiah (; Pəqaḥyā; "YHWH has opened the eyes"; ) was the seventeenth and third-from-last king of Israel and the son of Menahem, whom he succeeded, and the second and last king of Israel from the House of Gadi. He ruled from the capital of Samaria.
Key facts
- Royalty.name
- Pekaias
- Royalty.title
- King Of Israel
- Royalty.image
- Pekahiah.png
- Royalty.caption
- Pekahiah from Guillaume Rouillé's Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum
- Royalty.succession
- King of Israel (Northern Kingdom)
- Royalty.predecessor
- Menahem
- Royalty.father
- Menahem
- Royalty.successor
- Pekah
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Israel
- Place of death
- Samaria
- Father
- Menahem
- Occupation
- monarch
- Image
- Phacea-Pekahiah.jpg
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- date of birth
- 0800-01-01
- date of death
- 0740-00-00
- described by source
- Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron
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Pekahiah (; Pəqaḥyā; "YHWH has opened the eyes"; ) was the seventeenth and third-from-last king of Israel and the son of Menahem, whom he succeeded, and the second and last king of Israel from the House of Gadi. He ruled from the capital of Samaria.
Pekahiah became king in the fiftieth year of the reign of Uzziah, king of Judah. William F. Albright has dated his reign to 738–736 BCE, while E. R. Thiele offers the dates 742–740 BCE.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pekahiah” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.