2 Kings 15:20

Modern English Version

Menahem exacted the money from Israel, from all the very wealthy men, fifty shekels of silver each, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria left and did not stay there in the land.

Cross References

2 Samuel 19:32

Barzillai was very old, eighty years old. But he sustained the king during his stay in Mahanaim, for he was a very rich man.

2 Kings 15:19

Pul the king of Assyria came against the land, and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that he might help him strengthen his control of the kingdom.

2 Kings 15:21

The rest of the deeds of Menahem, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Israel?

2 Kings 15:29

In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel of Beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, Galilee, and all the land of Naphtali, and then exiled them to Assyria.

2 Kings 23:35

Jehoiakim gave the silver and gold to Pharaoh, but he taxed the land to give the money according to Pharaoh’s demand. According to an assessed amount, he exacted the silver and gold from the people of the land to give to Pharaoh Necho.

Job 1:3

His possessions were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and very many servants. This man was the greatest of all the people of the East.

Ruth 2:1

Now Naomi had a relative of her husband, a man of prominence and means from the clan of Elimelek. His name was Boaz.