2 Kings 15:25

_BUT PEKAH THE SON OF REMALIAH, A CAPTAIN OF HIS, CONSPIRED AGAINST HIM, AND SMOTE HIM IN SAMARIA, IN THE PALACE OF THE KING'S HOUSE, WITH ARGOB AND ARIEH, AND WITH HIM FIFTY MEN OF THE GILEADITES: AND HE KILLED HIM, AND REIGNED IN HIS ROOM._ With Argob and Arieh ... Many commentators view these as the captain's accomplices. But it is more probable that were influential friends of the king's, who were murdered along with him....

8-31 This history shows Israel in confusion. Though Judah was not without troubles, yet that kingdom was happy, compared with the state of Israel. The imperfections of true believers are very different from the allowed wickedness of ungodly men. Such is human nature, such are our hearts, if left to themselves, deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. We have reason to be thankful for restraints, for being kept out of temptation, and should beg of God to renew a right spirit within us....

Verse 2 Kings 15:25. _SMOTE HIM IN SAMARIA, IN THE PALACE OF THE KING'S_ _HOUSE, WITH ARGOB AND ARIEH_] Who Argob and Arieh were we know not; some make them _men_, some make them _statues_. Pekah had _fifty_ Gileadites in the conspiracy with him....

A CAPTAIN OF HIS - A mere “captain,” a person, therefore, of very moderate rank. The low birth of Pekah is probably glanced at in Isaiah’s favorite designation of him as “Remaliah’s son” Isaiah 7:4, Isaiah 7:9; Isaiah 8:6. From the fact that Pekah employed Gileadites to carry out his designs, it has been conjectured that he himself belonged to the trans-Jordanic region. IN THE PALACE OF THE KING’S HOUSE - Rather, “In the tower of the king’s palace;” or possibly “in the harem of the king’s palace” (1 Kings 16:18 note)....

EXPOSITION 2 KINGS 15:1 REIGNS OF AZARIAH AND JOTHAM OVER JUDAH; AND OF ZACHARIAH, SHALLUM, MENAHEM, PEKAHIAH, AND PEKAH OVER ISRAEL. 2 KINGS 15:1 THE REIGN OF AZARIAH OVER JUDAS. The writer now more and more compresses his narrative. Into a single chapter he crowds the events of seven reigns, covering the space of nearly seventy years. He is consequent

BUT PEKAH THE SON OF REMALIAH, A CAPTAIN OF HIS,.... The word signifies a "third" man, the third to the king, as some think; Josephus a calls him a "chiliarch", one that had the command of a thousand men: CONSPIRED AGAINST HIM, AND SMOTE HIM IN SAMARIA, IN THE PALACE OF THE KING'S HOUSE; Josephus b says it was at a banquet: WITH ARGOB, AND ARIEH; whom, according to Abarbinel, Pekah slew with the king, being mighty men, who were always about him; but they seem rather to be conspirators with Pekah, and assisting to him in smiting the king; the former of these, Ben Gersom thinks, was governor of Argob, a country on the other side Jordan, and the latter had his name from his fortitude, which signifies a lion: AND WITH HIM FIFTY MEN OF THE GILEADITES; which may seem to strengthen the above notion concerning Argob, since the Gileadites were of the same side of Jordan, and were near Argob, s...

CHAPTER 15 _ 1. Reign and death of Azariah (Uzziah) (2 Kings 15:1; 2 Chronicles 26)._ 2. Reign and death of Zachariah (2 Kings 15:8) 3. Reign and death of Shallum (2 Kings 15:13) 4. Menahem, King of Israel (2 Kings 15:16) 5. Pul of Assyria and Menahem (2 Kings 15:19; 1 Chronicles 5:26) 6. Death of Menahem ...

LAST KINGS OF ISRAEL. Zechariah, the son of Jeroboam, reigned but six months (2 Kings 15:8), and was killed by Shallum, probably, as LXX (L) reads, in Ibleam, instead of the Heb., which is doubtfully rendered before the people (2 Kings 15:10). After a month 2 Kings 15:8 reign Shallum was killed by Menahem (2 Kings 15:14). 2 KINGS 15:19. PUL, THE KING OF ASSYRIA, has been identified with Tiglath-pileser III (58f., 70f.), who ravaged Northern Israel (2

PEKAH. Compare Isaiah 7:1....

Reign of Pekahiah king of Israel. He is slain by Pekah, the son of Remaliah, who succeeds him (Not in Chronicles) 25. _Pekah … a captain of his_ R.V. HIS CAPTAIN. The word is the same which in 2 Kings 7:2 is used for the captain (A.V. lord) on whose hand the king of Israel leaned. Probably Pekah occupied some such position about the king, which gave him the opportunity of attacking his master, for the murder was perpetrated -in the castle of the king's house". From the mention of the fifty men of the Gileadites who took part with him in the conspiracy, it has been conjectured that Pekah was himself a native of that wild land, the home in former days of Jephthah and of Elijah. His conduct is of the kind to be expected from one nursed in such wild localities. _in the palace_[R.V. CASTLE] _of the king's house_ The word is rendered -palace" everywhere in A.V.