22 And Men´ahem slept with his fathers; and Pekahi´ah his son reigned in his stead.
23 In the fiftieth year of Azari´ah king of Judah, Pekahi´ah the son of Men´ahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned two years.
24 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord: he departed not from the sins of Jerobo´am the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
25 But Pekah the son of Remali´ah, a captain of his, conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the king's house, with Argob and A´ri-eh, and with him fifty men of the Gil´e-adites: and he killed him, and reigned in his room.
26 And the rest of the acts of Pekahi´ah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel.
27 In the two and fiftieth year of Azari´ah king of Judah, Pekah the son of Remali´ah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned twenty years.
28 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord: he departed not from the sins of Jerobo´am the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.