27 In the fifty-second year of King Azaryah’s reign over Yehudah (Judah), Remalyah’s son Pekah became king over Yisrael (Israel) and reigned from Shomron (Samaria) for twenty years. 28 He did what Yahweh had said was evil—he didn’t avoid the kinds of behaviour that had been done by Nevat’s son Yarov’am (Jeroboam) who had caused Yisrael to sin.

29 During the reign of King Pekah over Yisrael, Ashur’s (Assyria’s) King Tiglat-Pileser came, and he captured the cities of Iyon, Avel-Beyt-Ma’akah, Yanoah, Kedesh, and Hatsor, and the regions of Gilead, Galil, and Naftali (Naphtali), and he exiled their people to Ashur.

30 Then Elah’s son Hoshea plotted to assassinate Remalyah’s son Pekah, and he attacked him, killing him and replacing him as king in the twentieth year of King Yotam’s (Jotham’s) reign over Yehudah. 31 Everything else that Pekah said and did is written in the book of the events of the kings of Yisrael.