For Menahem the son of Gadi came up from Tirzah and went to Samaria and smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.

The same time, Menahem destroyed Tappuah, and all that were therein, and the coasts thereof from Tirzah - because they opened not to him - he smote, and rent all the women with child.

The thirty ninth year of Uzziah king of Judah, began Menahem the son of Gadi to reign upon Israel, and continued ten years in Samaria.

And Pul, king of Assyria, came upon the land. And Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, to help him to establish his kingdom.

And Menahem raised the money in Israel, upon all men of substance, for to give the king of Assyria fifty sicles of silver apiece. And the king of Assyria turned back again and tarried not there in the land.

The rest of the deeds of Menahem and all he did, are written in the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.

And when Menahem was laid to rest with his fathers, Pekahiah his son reigned in his stead.

The fiftieth year of Uzziah king of Judah, began Pekahiah the son of Menahem to reign over Israel in Samaria, and continued two years,