2 Kings 15 Footnotes
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15:19 “Pul” is also known as “Tiglath-pileser” (15:29). Assyria replaced Aram (Syria) as the primary perceived threat to the northern kingdom. Menahem tried to buy Assyria off.
15:23 The “fiftieth year” was 742 BC. Pekahiah reigned for “two years” until 740 BC.
15:25 Pekahiah’s assassination occurred in 740 BC.
15:27 The “fifty-second year” was 740 BC. Pekah reigned twenty years, 752–732 BC. He ruled in Gilead from 752–740 BC, overlapping with Pekahiah’s reign in Samaria before he killed Pekahiah in 740 BC.
15:29 This began the deportation of the northern kingdom into exile by Assyria. The purpose of deportation was to destroy political and social structures of the enemy population so they would be easier to rule. At the end of Pekah’s reign, it was only ten years before Samaria was destroyed and the northern kingdom ceased to exist.