King Menahem succeeds Shallum of Israel

King Menahem succeeds Shallum of Israel

752 – 742 BC evil reign start to finish in time of Prophets Jonah and Hosea

14Then Menahem son of Gadi went up from Tirzah and came to Samaria, and struck Shallum son of Jabesh in Samaria, and killed him and became king in his place.15Now 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. 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 all its women who were with child.

17In the thirty-ninth year of Azariah king of Judah, Menahem son of Gadi became king over Israel and reigned ten years in Samaria. 18He did evil in the sight of YHVH; he did not depart all his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel sin.

2 King 15:14-18

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