"Zechariah"

Zechariah (r. 748-747 B.C.E.) – The son of Jeroboam II, who ruled Israel for half a year and continued the calf worship before being publicly murdered by the conspiring Shallum, who thus ended the House of Jehu, the only dynasty of Israel ruling for 5 lineal generations. Zechariah’s brief reign marks the beginning of the northern kingdom’s final state of dissolution. He does not appear in the Chronicles.