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2 Kings 15:21

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As for the rest of the acts of Menahem, along with all his accomplishments, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Now the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

KJV

And the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

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This verse in 2 Kings 15

Commentary

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This site's exposition

Pul the king of Assyria came against the land

on 2 Kings 15:19-22

Pul is the first Assyrian king this scroll names coming against Israel's own soil, the empire that will finish the north at 17:6 entering the story here as a threat bought off rather than fought. The Babylonian king lists identify Pul with Tiglath-pileser the third under his throne name, the same king who returns at verse 29 under his better known name to take Naphtali captive; Menahem's thousand talents only postpones what his successors cannot buy off twice. The tribute falls on every wealthy man at fifty shekels apiece, a land tax raised to pay a foreign king to leave, and the closing formula and Pekahiah's succession follow at once.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And the rest of the acts of Menahem,.... We are referred to the same book of chronicles for them as for those of the rest of the kings, which seems to be a form the historian uses of them all.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Are they not written in - the chronicles - There are no chronicles extant, in which there is any thing farther relative to this king.
Assyrian inscriptions show that Menahem was subsequently redfaced to subjection by Tiglath-Pileser 2Ki 15:29.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

He did not stay there but returned to his home seeing that he recived the money and no longer protect him from other enemies
Radak: Provence, 1160–1235 · Radak on II Kings 15:20:1, via Sefaria, Sefaria Community Translation

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 3 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

15 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְיֶ֛תֶרand [the] rest of

    veyeterH3499 →102 times

  • דִּבְרֵ֥י[the] matters of

    divreiH1697 →1440 times

  • מְנַחֵ֖םMenahem

    menachemH4505 →8 times

  • וְכָל־and all

    vekholH3605 →5413 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֣רthat

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • עָשָׂ֑הhe did

    ʾasahH6213 →2628 times

  • הֲלוֹא־¿ not

    halo'-H3808 →5168 times

  • הֵ֣ם[are] they

    hemH1992 →553 times

  • כְּתוּבִ֗יםwritten

    ketuvimH3789 →224 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • סֵ֛פֶר[the] scroll of

    seferH5612 →186 times

  • דִּבְרֵ֥י[the] matters of

    divreiH1697 →1440 times

  • הַיָּמִ֖יםthe days

    haiyamimH3117 →2304 times

  • לְמַלְכֵ֥יof [the] kings of

    lemalkheiH4428 →2525 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃Israel

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

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About 2 Kings

Elijah Ascends to Heaven in a Chariot of Fire, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Elijah Ascends to Heaven in a Chariot of Fire, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
2 Kings: the study guide →Read 2 Kings 15 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); F. W. Farrar, The Second Book of Kings (Expositor's Bible); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Keil, The Books of the Kings.

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