thquake shook the ground [26] and a rent was made in the temple, and
the bright rays of the sun shone through it, and fell upon the king's
face, insomuch that the leprosy seized upon him immediately. And before
the city, at a place called Eroge, half the mountain broke off from the
rest on the west, and rolled itself four furlongs, and stood still at
the east mountain, till the roads, as well as the king's gardens, were
spoiled by the obstruction. Now, as soon as the priests saw that the
king's face was infected with the leprosy, they told him of the calamity
he was under, and commanded that he should go out of the city as a
polluted person. Hereupon he was so confounded at the sad distemper, and
sensible that he was not at liberty to contradict, that he did as he was
commanded, and underwent this miserable and terrible punishment for
an intention beyond what befitted a man to have, and for that impiety
against God which was implied therein. So he abode out of the city
for some time, and lived a private life, while his son Jotham took
the government; after which he died with grief and anxiety at what had
happened to him, when he had lived sixty-eight years, and reigned of
them fifty-two; and was buried by himself in his own gardens.

CHAPTER 11. How Zachariah Shallum, Menahem Pekahiah And Pekah Took The
Government Over The Israelites; And How Pul And Tiglath-Pileser Made An
Expedition Against The Israelites. How Jotham, The Son Of Uzziah Reigned
Over The Tribe Of Judah; And What Things Nahum Prophesied Against The
Assyrians.

1. Now when Zachariah, the son of Jeroboam, had reigned six months over
Israel, he was slain by the treachery of a certain friend of his, whose
name was Shallum, the son of Jabesh, who took the kingdom afterward,
but kept it no longer than thirty days; for Menahem, the general of his
army, who was at that time in the city Tirzah, and heard of what had
befallen Zachariah, removed thereupon with all his forces to Samaria,
and joining battle with Shallum, slew him; and when he had made himself
king, he went thence, and came to the city Tiphsah; but the citizens
that were in it shut their gates, and barred them against the king, and
would not admit him: but in order to be avenged on them, he burnt the
country round about it, and took the city by force, upon a siege; and
being very much displeased at what the inhabitants of Tiphsah had
done, he slew them all, and spared not so much as the infant