¹⁶At that time Menahem destroyed Tiphsah, all who were in it, and all its territory from Tirzah, because it had not opened to him, so he destroyed it and ripped open all of its pregnant women.

Menahem Reigns in Israel

¹⁷In the thirty-ninth year of Azariah king of Judah, Menahem the son of Gadi began to reign over Israel for ten years in Samaria. ¹⁸But he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh. He did not depart all of his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat which he caused Israel to sin.

¹⁹Pul the king of Assyria came against the land, so Menahem gave a thousand talents of silver to Pul so that his hand would be with him to strengthen his hold on the kingdom.^f ²⁰Menahem exacted the money from Israel, from all the very rich,^g to give to the king of Assyria fifty shekels of silver for each one. Then the king of Assyria returned and did not stay there in the land. ²¹Now the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel? ²²So Menahem slept with his ancestors,^h and Pekahiah his son became king in his place.

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Footnotes

fLiterally “to strengthen the kingship in his hand”
gLiterally “the mighty of the wealth”
hOr “fathers”