For Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and came to Samaria, and smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.
Ver. 14. For Menahem the son of Gadi.] Who was general of Zachariah's army, saith Josephus: a as Omri was of drunken Elah's. This Menahem is by Sulpitius Severus called Manes: as was also the first founder of the Manichees, those ancient heretics. The name signifieth Paracletum, a comforter: but they proved nothing less.
And slew him.] This was interitus tyranno dignus.
a Hist., lib. i.