Pekah

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Pekah
     open-eyed, the son of Remaliah a captain in the army of
     Pekahiah, king of Israel, whom he slew, with the aid of a band
     of Gileadites, and succeeded (B.C. 758) on the throne (2 Kings
     15:25). Seventeen years after this he entered into an alliance
     with Rezin, king of Syria, and took part with him in besieging


     Jerusalem (2 Kings 15:37; 16:5). But Tiglath-pilser, who was in
     alliance with Ahaz, king of Judah, came up against Pekah, and
     carried away captive many of the inhabitants of his kingdom (2
     Kings 15:29). This was the beginning of the "Captivity." Soon
     after this Pekah was put to death by Hoshea, the son of Elah,
     who usurped the throne (2 Kings 15:30; 16:1-9. Comp. Isa. 7:16;
     8:4; 9:12). He is supposed by some to have been the "shephard"
     mentioned in Zech. 11:16.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Pekah, he that opens; that is at liberty