²⁵ Then Pekah son of Remaliah, his officer, conspired against him and struck him in Samaria, in ^(A)the castle of the king’s house with Argob and Arieh; and with him were fifty men of the Gileadites, and he killed him and became king in his place.

⁶ For ^(A)Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah 120,000 in one day, all valiant men, because they had forsaken the Lord God of their fathers.