Tool Beta
Fact Book
The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Menahem (King living at the time of Divided Monarchy)
He took the throne of northern Israel by murdering the king before him, then savagely sacked a city that would not open to him. To keep his crown he paid a huge tribute to Tiglath-pileser the Third, and Assyrian inscriptions name Menahem paying it.
He took the throne of northern Israel by murdering the king before him, then savagely sacked a city that would not open to him. To keep his crown he paid a huge tribute to Tiglath-pileser the Third, and Assyrian inscriptions name Menahem paying it.
Menahem seized the throne of northern Israel by assassinating his predecessor and then brutally sacking a city that refused to submit to him. He paid a massive tribute to the Assyrian king Tiglath-pileser the Third to secure his own throne, a payment independently recorded in Assyrian inscriptions that name Menahem directly.
H4505
- 2 Kings 15:14
- 2 Kings 15:16
- 2 Kings 15:17
- 2 Kings 15:19
- 2 Kings 15:20
- 2 Kings 15:21
- 2 Kings 15:22
- 2 Kings 15:23
