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Pekah the son of Remaliah, his captain, conspired against him, and struck 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 killed him, and reigned in his place.
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Betrayal in the Citadel
Scholars explain that Pekah, a military captain, assassinated King Pekahiah in the most secure part of the palace—the 'tower' or 'harem.' The fifty men who helped him were Gileadites. Commentators note the irony that the king's father was from Gilead and likely recruited these very men for his royal guard, making this a profound betrayal from within the king's own security detail.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
A captain of his - A mere “captain,” a person, therefore, of very moderate rank. The low birth of Pekah is probably alluded to in Isaiah’s f…
19th Century
Anglican
THE REIGN OF PEKAHIAH(Hebrew, Pĕkahyâh).
(23) In the fiftieth year. —The forty-ninth, if ve…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his The word signifies a "third" man, the third to the king, as some thi…
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