2 Kings 15:20 BSB — MannaFest

2 Kings 15:20

Menahem exacted this money from each of the wealthy men of Israel—fifty shekels of silver from each man—to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria withdrew and did not remain in the land.

BSB

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ASV

And Menahem exacted the money of Israel, even of all the mighty men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and stayed not there in the land.

KJV

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Commentary

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Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Menahem exacted the money - The kings of Israel had no such ready resource in difficulties as that possessed by the kings of Judah in the temple treasury 2Ki 12:18; 2Ki 16:8. Hence, the forced contribution from the people, the odium of which was diminished by confining the levy to the comparatively rich. Each man fifty shekels - As the silver talent contained 3,000 shekels, the levy of fifty shekels a head must have extended to 60,000 persons.

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Original language & word study

25 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיֹּצֵא֩	vai.yo.Tze'	and he brought out	H3318 →
מְנַחֵ֨ם	me.na.Chem	Menahem	H4505 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
הַכֶּ֜סֶף	ha.Ke.sef	the silver	H3701 →
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →
עַ֚ל	'al	on	H5921 →
כָּל־	kol-	all	H3605 →
גִּבּוֹרֵ֣י	gi.bo.Rei	[the] mighty [men] of	H1368 →
הַחַ֔יִל	ha.Cha.yil	<the> wealth	H2428 →
לָתֵת֙	la.Tet	to give [it]	H5414 →
לְמֶ֣לֶךְ	le.Me.lekh	to [the] king of	H4428 →
אַשּׁ֔וּר	'a.Shur	Assyria	H804 →
חֲמִשִּׁ֧ים	cha.mi.Shim	fifty	H2572 →
שְׁקָלִ֛ים	she.ka.Lim	shekels	H8255 →
כֶּ֖סֶף	Ke.sef	silver	H3701 →
לְאִ֣ישׁ	le.'Ish	to a man	H376 →
אֶחָ֑ד	'e.Chad	one	H259 →
וַיָּ֙שָׁב֙	vai.Ya.shov	and he returned	H7725 →
מֶ֣לֶךְ	Me.lekh	[the] king of	H4428 →
אַשּׁ֔וּר	'a.Shur	Assyria	H804 →
וְלֹא־	ve.lo'-	and not	H3808 →
עָ֥מַד	'A.mad	he remained	H5975 →
שָׁ֖ם	sham	there	H8033 →
בָּאָֽרֶץ׃	ba.'A.retz	in the land	H776 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
2 Samuel 19:32
Barzillai was quite old, eighty years of age, and since he was a very wealthy man, he had provided for the king while he stayed in Mahanaim.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 34:7
  Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak, and his vitality had not diminished.
- 1 Samuel 25:2
  Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. He was a very wealthy man with a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing in Carmel.
- Proverbs 16:31
  Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is attained along the path of righteousness.
- Job 1:3
  and he owned 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and a very large number of servants. Job was the greatest man of all the people of the East.
Through
Ruth 2:1
Now Naomi had a relative on her husband’s side, a prominent man of noble character from the clan of Elimelech, whose name was Boaz.
leads to
- Ruth 4:21
  Salmon was the father of Boaz, Boaz was the father of Obed,
- Ruth 3:2
  Now is not Boaz, with whose servant girls you have been working, a relative of ours? In fact, tonight he is winnowing barley on the threshing floor.
- Ruth 3:12
  Yes, it is true that I am a kinsman-redeemer, but there is a redeemer nearer than I.
Through
2 Kings 23:35
So Jehoiakim paid the silver and gold to Pharaoh Neco, but to meet Pharaoh’s demand he taxed the land and exacted the silver and the gold from the people, each according to his wealth.
leads to
- 2 Kings 23:33
  And Pharaoh Neco imprisoned Jehoahaz at Riblah in the land of Hamath so that he could not reign in Jerusalem, and he imposed on Judah a levy of a hundred talents of silver and…