25 And ^gPekah the son of Remaliah, his captain, conspired against him with fifty men of the people of Gilead, and struck him down in Samaria, in the citadel of the king’s house with Argob and Arieh; he put him to death and reigned in his place.

Pekah Reigns in Israel

27 In the fifty-second year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned twenty years.

6 For ^kPekah the son of Remaliah killed 120,000 from Judah in one day, all of them men of valor, because they had ^lforsaken the Lord, the God of their fathers.