23 In the fiftieth year of King Azaryah’s reign over Yehudah, Menahem’s son Pekahyah became king over Israel and reigned from Shomron (Samaria) for two years. 24 He did what Yahweh had said was evil—he didn’t avoid the kinds of behaviour that had been done by Nebat’s son Yarave’am who had caused Israel to sin. 25 But Pekah the son of Remalyah, Pekahyah’s third officer, plotted to assassinate him, and he attacked him in the palace in Shomron with the assistance of Argov and Aryeh and fifty Gileadites. So Pekah killed King Pekahyah and replaced him as king. 26 Everything else that Pekahyah said and did is written in the book of the events of the kings of Israel—look at it.