Now the rest of the acts of Pekah, all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? — the summary formula for Pekah's sixteen-year reign, following immediately upon his assassination, reduces his tenure to a formulaic notation. His sixteen years, spent partly under Assyrian conquest, constitute a reign of declining power despite its relative length.

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