2 Kings 15:15-17

International Standard Version

¹⁵ The rest of Shallum’s activities, including the conspiracy that he carried out, are recorded in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel, are they not?

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.