2 Kings 15:15-17

New Catholic Bible

¹⁵ As for the rest of the deeds of Shallum, and his plot, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

¹⁶ Menahem then started out from Tirzah and he attacked Tappuah and everyone in it and its environs because they would not open up its gates. He killed everyone in it, even ripping open the bellies of the pregnant women.

¹⁷ Menahem of Israel. Menahem, son of Gadi, began to reign over Israel during the thirty-ninth year of the reign of Azariah, the king of Judah. He reigned in Samaria for ten years.