Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Kings 15:16

16 ¶ Then Menahem smote Tiphsah , and all that were therein, and the coasts thereof from Tirzah : because they opened not to him , therefore he smote it, and all the women therein that were with child, he ript up .

Either that Tiphsah mentioned 1 King. 4. 24. or another City of that name.

i. e. All the people dwelling between Tirzah and Tiphsah.

Because they refused to open the Gates of their City to him, and to submit to him as Conqueror.

That by this example of severity he might affright all the rest of the people into obedience.

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