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• Then Menahem, son of Gadi, rebelled against him in Tirzah. He came to Samaria and killed Shallum in that city. Having killed Shallum, Menahem reigned in his place. (2 Kings 15, 14)

• Then Menahem seized Tappuah and killed its inhabitants, devastating its territory from Tirzah onwards, since they would not open the gates to him. And he ripped open all the pregnant women. (2 Kings 15, 16)

• Menahem, son of Gadi, began to reign in the thirty-ninth year of Azariah, king of Judah. He reigned for ten years in Samaria, (2 Kings 15, 17)

• In his days, Pul, the king of Assyria, invaded the land of Israel. And Menahem had to give him a thousand talents of silver so that the king of Asshur would receive him as an ally and keep him in power. (2 Kings 15, 19)

• Menahem exacted the money from all the wealthy and prominent people of Israel to give to the king of Asshur: fifty pieces of silver from each one. With this, the king of Asshur turned back and did not stay there in the land. (2 Kings 15, 20)

• Now the rest regarding Menahem and all that he did is written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel. (2 Kings 15, 21)

• When Menahem died, his son Pekahiah succeeded him. (2 Kings 15, 22)

• Pekahiah, son of Menahem, began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the fiftieth year of Azariah, king of Judah. He reigned for two years, (2 Kings 15, 23)