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15 Additional details about King Shallum and his conspiracy[a] are recorded in The Annals of the Kings of Israel.

16 Menahem destroyed the city of Tappuah and the surrounding countryside, for its citizens refused to accept him as their king; he killed the entire population and ripped open the pregnant women.

17 New king of Israel: Menahem

Length of reign: 10 years, in Samaria

Reigning in Judah at that time: King Azariah, who had been the king there for 39 years

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 15:15 Shallum and his conspiracy, see v. 10.

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