Then Menahem sent destruction on the people of Tappuah and the nearby territory. He attacked it because they would not let him come in. He had all the pregnant women cut open.

You impose unfair rent on the poor and defraud a tribute of grain from them. You haave built houses of hewn stone yet you will not live in them. You planted pleasant vineyards, but you will not drink the wine from them.

He willingly

He thought to himself: The way things are my people will go to Jerusalem and offer sacrifices to Jehovah at the Temple there.

The statutes of Omri and the works of the house of Ahab are observed. You walk in their counsels. I will make you desolation! The inhabitants will be hissed. You will bear the reproach of my people.

General references

There would be nothing that nations could do to keep godless oppressors from ruling them.

They make kings happy with the wicked things they do. They make officials happy with the lies they tell.