Discovery Box2 Kings 15:14-15 
Context15:14 Menahem son of Gadi went up from Tirzah to 1 Samaria and attacked Shallum son of Jabesh. 2 He killed him and took his place as king. 15:15 The rest of the events of Shallum’s reign, including the conspiracy he organized, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Israel. 3
2 Kings 15:17
ContextMenahem’s Reign over Israel
15:17 In the thirty-ninth year of King Azariah’s reign over Judah, Menahem son of Gadi became king over Israel. He reigned for twelve years in Samaria. 4
1 tn Heb “and came to.”
2 tn Heb “went up from Tirzah and arrived in Samaria and attacked Shallum son of Jabesh in Samaria.”
3 tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Shallum, and his conspiracy which he conspired, look, they are written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel.”
4 map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.
