2 Kings 15:16-18

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Menahem’s Reign over Israel

¹⁶ At another time, Menahem attacked Tiphsah and all of its inhabitants, including its coastlands from Tirzah, because they would not open the city gate for him. After defeating them, he ripped open all of their pregnant women. ¹⁷ In the thirty-ninth year of the reign of^[a] Azariah, king of Judah, Gadi’s son Menahem began a ten-year reign over Israel from Samaria. ¹⁸ He did what the Lord considered to be evil by never abandoning the sins of Nebat’s son Jeroboam, who caused Israel to sin, as long as he lived.