2 Kings 15:16–22

¹⁶Then Menahem struck Tiphsah and all who were in it and its borders from Tirzah, because they did not open to him; therefore he struck it and ripped up ^aall its pregnant women.

Menahem Reigns over Israel

¹⁷In the ^athirty-ninth year of Azariah king of Judah, Menahem son of Gadi became king over Israel and reigned ten years in Samaria.

¹⁸And he did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh; he did not depart all his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel sin.

^19aPul, king of Assyria, came against the land, and Menahem gave Pul one thousand ¹talents of silver so that his hand might be with him to ^bstrengthen the kingdom in his hand.

²⁰Then Menahem exacted the money from Israel, even from all the mighty men of valor, from each man fifty ¹shekels of silver to pay the king of Assyria. So 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 Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

²²And Menahem slept with his fathers, and Pekahiah his son became king in his place.