Who was Pekah?

Open-eyed, the son of Remaliah a captain in the army of Pekahiah, king of Israel, whom he slew, with the aid of a band of Gileadites, and succeeded (B. C. 758) on the throne (2 Kings 15:25).

Pekah first appears in 2 Kings 15:25. In this repository’s biblical text, this figure is associated with 11 verse mentions across 3 books, most notably 2 Kings, 2 Chronicles, Isaiah.