2 Kings 15:14

_FOR MENAHEM THE SON OF GADI WENT UP FROM TIRZAH, AND CAME TO SAMARIA, AND SMOTE SHALLUM THE SON OF JABESH IN SAMARIA, AND SLEW HIM, AND REIGNED IN HIS STEAD._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

8-31 This history shows Israel in confusion. Though Judah was not without troubles, yet that kingdom was happy, compared with the state of Israel. The imperfections of true believers are very different from the allowed wickedness of ungodly men. Such is human nature, such are our hearts, if left to themselves, deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. We have reason to be thankful for restraints, for being kept out of temptation, and should beg of God to renew a right spirit within us....

Tirzah, the old capital, once more appears as a place of importance, giving birth to the pretender, who alone of all these later kings died a natural death, and left the crown to his son 2 Kings 15:22. It would seem from the present passage to have been on lower ground than Samaria....

EXPOSITION 2 KINGS 15:1 REIGNS OF AZARIAH AND JOTHAM OVER JUDAH; AND OF ZACHARIAH, SHALLUM, MENAHEM, PEKAHIAH, AND PEKAH OVER ISRAEL. 2 KINGS 15:1 THE REIGN OF AZARIAH OVER JUDAS. The writer now more and more compresses his narrative. Into a single chapter he crowds the events of seven reigns, covering the space of nearly seventy years. He is consequent

FOR MENAHEM THE SON OF GADI WENT UP FROM TIRZAH,.... A city in the tribe of Manasseh, the royal city of the kings of Israel before Omri, of which Joshua 12:24, whether Menahem was of this city, or was now besieging it with an army he had the command of, as Josephus r suggests, is not certain; however, hearing what had befallen Zachariah, he came from hence: and came to Samaria; which, according to Bunting s, was six miles from Tirzah: AND SMOTE SHALLUM THE SON OF JABESH IN SAMARIA, AND SLEW HIM, AND REIGNED IN HIS STEAD; judging he had as good a right to the throne as Shallum had. r Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 9. c. 11. sect. 1.) s Travels, c. p. 169....

CHAPTER 15 _ 1. Reign and death of Azariah (Uzziah) (2 Kings 15:1; 2 Chronicles 26)._ 2. Reign and death of Zachariah (2 Kings 15:8) 3. Reign and death of Shallum (2 Kings 15:13) 4. Menahem, King of Israel (2 Kings 15:16) 5. Pul of Assyria and Menahem (2 Kings 15:19; 1 Chronicles 5:26) 6. Death of Menahem ...

LAST KINGS OF ISRAEL. Zechariah, the son of Jeroboam, reigned but six months (2 Kings 15:8), and was killed by Shallum, probably, as LXX (L) reads, in Ibleam, instead of the Heb., which is doubtfully rendered before the people (2 Kings 15:10). After a month 2 Kings 15:8 reign Shallum was killed by Menahem (2 Kings 15:14). 2 KINGS 15:19. PUL, THE KING OF ASSYRIA, has been identified with Tiglath-pileser III (58f., 70f.), who ravaged Northern Israel (2

TIRZAH. The capital before Samaria (1 Kings 14:17. 1Ki 14:15, 1 Kings 14:21; 1 Kings 16:8). Now _Telluzah,_ about nine miles north of Samaria....

_Menahem the son of Gadi_ It has been suggested that Menahem was an officer of king Zechariah and advanced from Tirzah, where he was stationed, to Samaria to avenge the murder of his master. This may have been so, but if the expression -before the people" in verse 10 be correct, it would appear as if Zechariah had few to take his part. _Tirzah_ Was made a royal residence by Jeroboam I. (1 Kings 14:17). The site of Tirzah has not been identified, but its beauty is extolled in Song of Solomon 6:4. We learn from 1 Kings 16:17 that it was a fortress capable of standing a siege, and so may have been a military post, and Menahem an officer there. _and reigned in his stead_ These words are not

MENAHEM—WENT UP FROM TIRZAH— _Tirzah_ was a long time the regal city of the kingdom of Israel; Jeroboam, who was the first king of Israel, though he dwelt for some time at Shechem, in his latter days at least resided here; as did all the kings of Israel, till Omri, having reigned six years in _Tirzah,_ built Samaria, and removed the royal seat thither, where it continued till a final period was put to that kingdom. See Song of Solomon 6:4 and Wells's Geogr. vol. 3:...