2 Kings 15:14 - Exposition

For Manahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah. Ewald supposes Tirzah to have been the "native city" of Menahem; but this is not stated. According to Josephus ( l.s.c. ), he was commander-in-chief, and happened to be in Tirzeh at the time. (On the probable site of Tirzeh, see the comment on 1 Kings 14:17 .) It was the royal city of the kingdom of the ten tribes from the later part of Jeroboam's reign to the building of Samaria by Omri (see 1 Kings 14:17 ; 1 Kings 16:6 , 1 Kings 16:8 , 1 Kings 16:15 , 1 Kings 16:23 ). And came to Samaria, and smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria— Josephus says that there was a battle, in which Shallum was slain— and slew him, and reigned in his stead.