Since Tiglath-Pileser came to the throne in 745 BC, Menahem's tribute would have to be in 745 or later, yet the " longer " chronology gave Pekah, successor to Menahem and Pekahiah, a twenty-year reign that started before this, in 752.

Others who have accepted the Lederer / Cook explanation of the two methods of dating for the time of Pekah are Thiele in his second edition of Mysterious Numbers and later, Leslie McFall, Francis Andersen and David Noel Freedman in their commentary on Hosea in the Anchor Bible Series, T. C. Mitchell, in the Cambridge Ancient History, and Jack Finegan in his Handbook of Biblical Chronology.

Commenting on the fact that Egyptologists have no problem in reconstructing history using inference of this sort, whereas critics will sometimes not allow the same historical method to be applied to the Bible, Young writes, " Do those who reject the Menahem / Pekah rivalry as improbable also reject as improbable this reconstruction from Egypt's Eighteenth Dynasty that Egyptologists use to explain the regnal dates of Thutmose III?

Ahaz, king of Judah, at this crisis refused to co-operate with the kings of Israel and Syria in opposition to the Assyrians, and was on that account attacked and defeated by Rezin of Damascus and Pekah of Israel (; ).

William F. Albright has dated his reign to 737 – 732 BC, while E. R. Thiele, following H. J. Cook and Carl Lederer, held that Pekah set up in Gilead a rival reign to Menahem's Samaria-based kingdom in Nisan of 752 BC, becoming sole ruler on his assassination of Menahem's son Pekahiah in 740 / 739 BC and dying in 732 / 731 BC.

The objections to Pekah being a rival to Menahem usually center on Pekah ’ s position as an officer in the army of Pekahiah, Menahem ’ s son and successor ( 2 Kgs 15: 25 ).

A study of the relevant texts in Scripture allows the narrowing of the start of the Pekah / Menahem rivalry on the death of Shallum to the month of Nisan, 752 BC, as Thiele showed in the second edition of Mysterious Numbers, pp. 87 – 88.

The amount of tribute exacted from Hoshea is not stated in Scripture, but Menahem, about ten years previously ( 743 or 742 BC ) was required to pay 1, 000 talents of silver to Tiglath-Pileser in order to " strengthen his hold on the kingdom " (), apparently against Menahem's rival Pekah.

Bit-Khumri was used by Tiglath-pileser III for the non-Omride kings Pekah ( 733 ) & Hoshea ( 732 ), hence House / Land / Kingdom of Omri could apply to later Israelite kings not necessarily descended from Omri.

* 733 BC: According to the Bible, Jerusalem becomes a vassal of the Neo-Assyrian Empire after Ahaz of Judah appeals to Tiglath Pileser III of the Neo-Assyrian Empire to protect the city from Pekah of Israel and Rezin of Aram.

Thutmose left no explanation for modern historians that his 22nd year was really the first year of sole reign, any more than Pekah or the historian of 2 Kings left an explanation that Pekah's 12th year, the year in which he slew Pekahiah, was really his first year of sole reign.

In c. 732 BCE, when Pekah, king of Israel, allied with Rezin, king of Aram, threatened Jerusalem, Ahaz appealed to Tiglath-Pileser III, the king of Assyria, for help.

In c. 732 BCE, Pekah allied with Rezin, king of Aram, threatened Jerusalem, and Ahaz, king of Judah, appealed to Tiglath-Pileser III, the king of Assyria, for help.

When Pekah allied with Rezin, king of Aram to attack Ahaz, the king of Judah, Ahaz appealed to Tiglath-Pileser III, the king of Assyria, for help.

D. M. Beegle has maintained that it is impossible to reconcile a twenty-year reign for Pekah with other biblical or with Assyrian history, using this as one of his arguments that the doctrine of the inerrancy of all Scripture cannot be true.

In 1887, Carl Lederer proposed that the existence of two apparently contradictory sets of text for Pekah could be explained if there really were two systems in use for reckoning the reign of Pekah, and these were the consequence of a rivalry between Pekah and Menahem.

This assumption accounted for all the chronological texts that related four kings of Judah ( Uzziah through Hezekiah ) to three kings of Israel ( Menahem, Pekahiah, and Pekah ), but it apparently was largely ignored by the scholarly community.

Tiglath-Pileser says he united the northern part ( restored as Naphthali in the text ) with Assyria, whereas for the southern part, he wrote, " Israel ( bit-Humria ) overthrew their king Pekah and I placed Hoshea as king over them.

The consequence was that Rezin and Pekah were conquered and many of the people carried captive to Assyria (, ; ).

Pekah (;, Pẹqakh ; " open-eyed "; ) was king of Israel.

Pekah was the son of Remaliah (; ).

Soon after this Pekah was assassinated by Hoshea, the son of Elah, who took the throne, in the twentieth year of Jotham of Judah.

Also, Pekah assassinated Pekahiah to assume the throne (), and Pekahiah's two-year reign () was preceded by his father Menahem's ten-year reign ().

" Cook maintained that although the Scriptures did not explicitly state the existence of two rival kingdoms in the north in the latter half of the eighth century BC, their existence could be inferred from passages of the book of Hosea that was written about the time of Pekah and Menahem.

Isaiah 7: 1, 2 speaks of a league between Pekah and King Rezin of Aram that was a threat to Ahaz of Judah.

A major objection to the idea that Pekah headed a kingdom that was rival to Menahem's reign in Samaria is that he is listed as a commander ( shalish ) of Pekahaiah, Menahem's son, whom he slew ( 2 Kings 15: 25 ).

After a reign of two years, Pekahiah was assassinated in the citadel of the royal palace at Samaria by Pekah, son of Remaliah, one of his chief officers, with the help of fifty men of Gilead.

: " Omri-land " Bit-Humria )&# 133 ; overthrew their king Pekah ( Pa-qa-ha ) and I placed Hoshea ( A-ú-si ) as king over them.

His reign commenced in the seventeenth year of the reign of Pekah of Israel.

In c. 732 BCE, Pekah, king of Israel allied with Rezin, king of Aram, and threatened Jerusalem.

Pekah became king in the fifty-second and last year of Azariah, king of Judah, and he reigned twenty years.

In c. 732 BCE, Pekah allied with Rezin, king of Aram and threatened Jerusalem.

Ahaz's " dread " of Rezin and Pekah, " Son of Remaliah " is recorded in the Immanuel prophecy in Isaiah 7: 14 where the birth of a son ( possibly Hezekiah ) is a sign of the defeat of both kings by the King of Assyria before the child is old enough to eat curds and honey and distinguish right from wrong.

However, a shorter reign is indicated by, which says that Pekah began to reign in the 52nd year of Azariah ( Uzziah ) of Judah, i. e. in 740 BC.

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