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2 Kings

Shallum’s Brief Usurpation and Murder

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13 Shallum son of Jabesh became king in the thirty-ninth year of Uzziah king of Judah, and he reigned one month in Samaria. 14 Then Menahem son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, came to Samaria, struck Shallum son of Jabesh in Samaria, killed him, and reigned in his place. 15 Now the rest of the acts of Shallum and the conspiracy that he conspired are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? 16 Then Menahem struck Tiphsah and all who were in it and its territories from Tirzah, because they did not open to him. And he ripped open all its pregnant women.