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MENAHEM (Hebrew for " consoler ")

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 109 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MENAHEM (See also:Hebrew for " consoler ")  , a See also:king of See also:Israel . He was the son of Gadi (i.e. perhaps, a See also:man of See also:Gad), and during the disturbances at the See also:death of See also:Jeroboam II. seized the See also:throne and reigned ten years (2 See also:Kings xv . 14-18) . The See also:scene of his revolt was Tirzah, the old seat of the kings of Israel between Jeroboam I. and See also:Omri (which See also:period the See also:present closely resembles), and it was only after perpetrating nameless cruelties at Tappuah' on the border of See also:Ephraim and Mannasseh that the See also:counter revolt of Shallum, son of Jabesh (perhaps a Gileadite), was suppressed . Towards the end of his reign Tiglath-Pileser IV. marched against See also:north See also:Syria, and among his tributaries mentions See also:Menahem 2 together with Re2in of See also:Damascus, and kings of See also:Tyre, Gebal, &c . (c . 738 B.C.) . According to the Old Testament See also:account the See also:Assyrian king even advanced against Israel, and only withdrew in See also:consideration of a See also:tribute amounting to about £400,000 . A thousand talents (i.e. about 3,000,000 shekels) was raised by assessing every wealthy See also:person at 5o shekels . The See also:act was hardly popular, and the See also:internal troubles which he had quelled 1 Scarcely Tiphsah (2 Kings xv . 16) on the See also:Euphrates .. 2 The See also:identification of the Israelite king with Me-n-hi-(See also:im)-mi of Sa-me-ri-na-ai on the See also:Ass. inscription has been unnecessarily doubted .

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broke out again at or shortly after his death . The Gileadites again conspired, and having slain his son Pekahiah set up Pekah the son of Remaliah in his See also:place.' This meant a return to an See also:anti-Assyrian policy . (See ARAz.) (S . A .

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