Atlas Biblica

    person

    Pekah

    פֶּ֫קַח

    Pekah, son of Remaliah, king of Israel who reigned for 20 years.

    verses
    11
    first named
    2 Kings 15:25
    last named
    Isaiah 7:9
    period
    Divided Monarchy
    tribe
    Israel

    Description

    Who was Pekah?

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Pekah son of Remaliah was the king of Israel for 20 years, according to 2Kings 15. He came to power by conspiring against and assassinating King Pekahiah. During his reign, Pekah allied with Rezin king of Aram to attack Judah, but they were unsuccessful in capturing Jerusalem (2Ki.16.5; Isa.7.1). However, Pekah did inflict heavy casualties on Judah, killing 120,000 in one day (2Ch.28.6). Pekah's reign ended when Hoshea conspired against him, killed him, and succeeded him as king. Pekah's reign was marked by political instability and conflict with Judah.

    Relations

    Direct connections

    Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.

    How the graph connects Pekah10 of 16 entities the graph connects to Pekah, in 2 groups: kinship 1, events 9. Kinship, company and ground are stated relations; events counts the acts two entities stand in together and is not a relation. Each mark is sized by how many verses name that entity and labelled with the link and the count, so the grouping and the size are both readable without colour. Distance from the centre carries nothing.RemaliahChild of · 13 versesKinshipIsrael2 events · 2,578 versesJudah3 events · 1,023 versesJerusalem2 events · 888 versesEphraim1 event · 159 versesSamaria1 event · 124 versesSyria1 event · 116 versesGilead1 event · 90 versesAhaz3 events · 37 versesJotham3 events · 20 versesEventsPekah

    The 10 best-attested of 16 are drawn. All 16 are listed below.

    Child of

    Took part in

    Stands in the same events as

    and 11 more, ordered by how many events they share.

    Places

    Where this happens

    The places the claims about this person reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.

    Where the story of Pekah happensThe one place the claims about Pekah reach, on a map of the world the text moves through, framed to them: Samaria. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer, sized by how many rows put Pekah there. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.Samaria
    Divided MonarchyThe one place the claims about Pekah reach

    Read it

    Where to read it

    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 11, across 3 books.

    1. 2 Kings9 verses

      15:2515:2715:2915:3015:3115:3215:3716:116:5

    2. 2 Chronicles1 verse

      28:6

    3. Isaiah1 verse

      7:1

    Onward

    Where this page goes

    Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.

    via Ahaz’s accession and Syria, Ephraim, and Pekah’s plot of AhazAhazKing of Judah, son of Jothamvia Ahaz’s accessionJudahIsraelite tribe, kingdom, and provincevia Syria, Ephraim, and Pekah’s plot of AhazEphraimSecond son of Joseph, and a tribe of Israel.via Pekah’s reignIsraelPatriarch, son of Isaac, father of twelve tribesvia Pekah’s reignPekahiahKing of Israel who reigned for 2 yearsvia Syria, Ephraim, and Pekah’s plot of AhazPlotPlot is a concept gathering 9 labelled instances in the text.via Pekah’s reignReignReign is a concept gathering 158 labelled instances in the text.via Pekah’s reignSamariaCapital city of the northern kingdom of Israel; Samaritan inhabitantsvia Syria, Ephraim, and Pekah’s plot of AhazSyriaAncient region north of Israel, often in conflict

    Where they appear

    Chapter by chapter

    Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.

    Sources

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