But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his, conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the king's house, with Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men of the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his room.
With Argob and Arieh ... Many commentators view these as the captain's accomplices. But it is more probable that were influential friends of the king's, who were murdered along with him.