2 Kings 15:25
But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his, conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the king’s house, with Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men of the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his room.
Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of Pekahiah king of Israel, conspired against him and smote him in Samaria in the palace of the king's house, killed him, and reigned in his room. This violent succession belongs to a period of short and troubled reigns marked by continuing conspiracy and strife among the ten tribes. The reigns of Menahem, Pekahiah, Pekah, and Hoshea followed the end of the dynasty of Jehu with Zachariah and Shallum. Pekah himself reigned for twenty years. These troubled reigns led to the end of the kingdom of Israel, when Shalmaneser of Assyria invaded, Sargon completed the conquest, and the tribes were carried away into captivity and scattered.