Bible Person

Arieh

Male · 1 cross reference

Arieh is one of the royal attendants killed in Pekah's conspiracy against Pekahiah. He belongs to the grim political setting of the northern kingdom's violent instability. First appears in 2 Kgs 15:25.1

AI summary: Arieh matters because his single cross reference places him among those cut down in the palace coup that ends Pekahiah's reign. Even a brief mention helps give personal shape to the brutality of Israel's final dynasties. Taken together, the material presents Arieh as a named casualty in the violent politics of the northern kingdom.1

Central Figure

Arieh

The lion, the name of one of the body-guard slain with Pekahiah at Samaria (2 Kings 15:25) by the conspirator Pekah.