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16 Menahem destroyed the city of Tappuah and the surrounding countryside, for its citizens refused to accept him as their king; he killed the entire population and ripped open the pregnant women.

17 New king of Israel: Menahem

Length of reign: 10 years, in Samaria

Reigning in Judah at that time: King Azariah, who had been the king there for 39 years

18 But Menahem was an evil king. He worshiped idols, as King Jeroboam I had done so long before, and he led the people of Israel into grievous sin.

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