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Arieh, along with Argob, was with King Pekahiah when Pekah conspired against him and assassinated him.
Arieh appears in 2 Kings 15:25 in the account of Pekah's assassination of King Pekahiah of Israel, alongside Argob. The verse's meaning is disputed: Arieh and Argob may be men killed along with the king, names of Pekah's co-conspirators, or possibly interpolated place names. The passage records that Pekah killed Pekahiah in the citadel of Samaria with fifty men of Gilead, took the throne, and reigned twenty years. The political instability of the last decades of the northern kingdom—marked by multiple assassinations and coups—created the vacuum that Assyria exploited to destroy Samaria in 722 BC.