2 Kings 15:23

THE SHORT; UNDISTINGUISHED REIGN OF PEKAHIAH

"In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned two years. And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, wherewith he made Israel to sin. And Pekah the son of Remaliah, his captain, conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the castle of the king's house, with Argob and Arieh; and with him were fifty men of the Gileadites: and he slew him, and reigned in his stead. Now the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel."

"Pekahiah ... reigned two years" (2 Kings 15:23). "The sacred author knew nothing important to write concerning this evil ruler other than the circumstances of his death (2 Kings 15:25)."[15] Josephus wrote concerning him that, "He followed the barbarity of his father, and so ruled but two years only, after which he was slain by his friends at a feast, by the treachery of one Pekah, the general of his horse, and the son of Remaliah who laid snares for him."[16]