2 Kings 15:20

The English Standar Version

Menahem exacted the money from Israel, that is, from all the wealthy men, fifty shekels[5] of silver from every man, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back and did not stay there in the land.

Cross References

Job 1:3

He possessed 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, and 500 female donkeys, and very many servants, so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the east.

2 Kings 23:35

And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh, but he taxed the land to give the money according to the command of Pharaoh. He exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, from everyone according to his assessment, to give it to Pharaoh Neco.

2 Kings 15:29

In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and he carried the people captive to Assyria.

2 Samuel 19:32

Barzillai was a very aged man, eighty years old. He had provided the king with food while he stayed at Mahanaim, for he was a very wealthy man.

Ruth 2:1

Now Naomi had a relative of her husband's, a worthy man of the clan of Elimelech, whose name was Boaz.

2 Kings 15:19

Pul[3] the king of Assyria came against the land, and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents[4] of silver, that he might help him to confirm his hold on the royal power.

2 Kings 15:21

Now the rest of the deeds of Menahem and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?