2 Kings 15:10-30

10Then Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and 1struck him in the presence of the people and 2killed him, and reigned in his place. 11Now as for the rest of the acts of Zechariah, behold they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel. 12This is 3the word of the Lord which He spoke to Jehu, saying, “Your sons to the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.” And so it was.

13Shallum the son of Jabesh became king in the 4thirty-ninth year of Uzziah king of Judah, and he reigned for 5one month in 6Samaria. 14Then Menahem the son of Gadi went up from 7Tirzah and came to Samaria, and struck Shallum son of Jabesh in Samaria, and killed him and became king in his place. 15Now as for the rest of the acts of Shallum and his conspiracy which he formed, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel. 16Then Menahem attacked Tiphsah and all who were in it and its borders from Tirzah, because they did not open up to him; so he attacked it and ripped up 8all its women who were pregnant.

17In the 9thirty-ninth year of Azariah king of Judah, Menahem the son of Gadi became king over Israel and reigned for ten years in Samaria. 18He did evil in the sight of the Lord; for all his days he did not desist from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, into which he misled Israel.

1910Pul, the king of Assyria, came against the land, and Menahem gave Pul a 11thousand talents of silver so that his hand might be with him to 12strengthen the 13kingdom 14under his rule. 20Then Menahem collected the money from Israel, from all the 15mighty men of wealth, from each man fifty shekels of silver to pay the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria returned and did not stay there in the land. 21Now as for the rest of the acts of Menahem and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? 22And Menahem 16lay down with his fathers, and his son Pekahiah became king in his place.

23In 17the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekahiah the son of Menahem became king over Israel in Samaria, and reigned for two years. 24He did evil in the sight of the Lord; he did not desist from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, into which he misled Israel. 25Then Pekah the son of Remaliah, his officer, conspired against him and struck him in Samaria, in 18the castle of the king’s house with Argob and Arieh; and with him were fifty men of the Gileadites, and he killed him and became king in his place. 26Now as for the rest of the acts of Pekahiah and everything that he did, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.

27In 19the fifty-second year of Azariah king of Judah, 20Pekah the son of Remaliah became king over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned for twenty years. 28He did evil in the sight of the Lord; he did not desist from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, into which he misled Israel.

29In the days of Pekah king of Israel, 2122Tiglath-pileser the king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and 23he led 24their populations into exile to Assyria. 30And Hoshea the son of Elah formed a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and struck him and put him to death, and he became king in his place, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.