Menahem

Menahem (also: Menachem Hebrew מנחם, German " Comforter " ) was king of Israel. His reign is BC to 738 BC, according to other commentators on the period from 752 BC dated by Albright to the years 745 to 742 BC.

Menahem the son of Gadi, came to power by the ruling coming only one month Shallum in Samaria fell from Tirzah, and the narrative 2 Kings 15 LUT According hand killed. Even his continued rule was, according to this source characterized by extreme brutality. So he had the pregnant women in Tiphsah (or Tappuah ) as punishment for that the city initially did not want to open the gates to him, slashed his stomach.

Menahem was with the expansion plans of Tiglath- Pileser III. of Assyria, which is called in the Bible " Pul " ( 2 Kings 15:19 LUT) faced. One of invasion, he met by paying a tribute to the Assyrians in the amount of 1000 talents of silver, which he financed through a tax that burdened the richest in the country with 50 pieces of silver. This tribute is occupied by an Assyrian inscription on the stele of Tiglath-Pileser III Iran: " Menahem of Samaria ... I laid tribute and tax ... on. "

Successor of Menahem became his son Pekahiah.