14
For Menahem, the son of Gadi, went up from Tirzah and came to Samaria and smote Shallum, the son of Jabesh, in Samaria and slew him and reigned in his stead.
15
And the rest of the acts of Shallum and his conspiracy which he made, behold, they
are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
16
Then Menahem smote Tiphsah and all that
were therein and the borders thereof from Tirzah because they had not opened
to him, therefore, he smote
it;
and all the women therein that were with child he ripped up.
17
In the year thirty-nine of Azariah, king of Judah, Menahem, the son of Gadi, began to reign over Israel
and reigned ten years in Samaria.
18
And he did
that which was evil in the sight of the LORD; he did not depart all his days from the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin.
19
And Pul, the king of Assyria, came against the land; and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.
20
And Menahem exacted the money upon Israel, from all the mighty men of virtue, from each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back and did not stay there in the land.
21
And the rest of the acts of Menahem and all that he did,
are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
22
And Menahem slept with his fathers, and Pekahiah, his son, reigned in his stead.
23
In the year fifty of Azariah, king of Judah, Pekahiah, the son of Menahem, began to reign over Israel in Samaria
and reigned two years.
24
And he did
that which was evil in the sight of the LORD; he did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin.