2 Raja-raja 15:20

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Menahem mengeluarkan uang ini atas beban Israel dan atas beban semua orang yang kaya raya untuk diberikan kepada raja Asyur: lima puluh syikal perak dari setiap orang. Lalu pulanglah raja Asyur dan ia tidak tinggal di sana, di negeri itu.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Menahem mengeluarkan uang ini atas beban Israel dan atas beban semua orang yang kaya raya untuk diberikan kepada raja Asyur: lima puluh syikal perak dari setiap orang. Lalu pulanglah raja Asyur dan ia tidak tinggal di sana, di negeri itu.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Adapun segala uang itu diambil oleh Menahim dari pada orang Israel, yaitu dari pada segala orang yang sangat kaya, hendak memberikan dia kepada raja benua Asyur, dari pada tiap-tiap orang lima puluh syikal perak, lalu pulanglah raja benua Asyur, tiada tinggal lagi dalam negeri itu.

Contextual Overview

⁸ In the thirtie and eyght yere of Azaria king of Iuda, did Zacharia the sonne of Ieroboam raigne vpon Israel in Samaria sixe monethes: ⁹ And wrought that which was euill in the sight of the Lorde, as did his fathers: And turned not away from the sinnes of Ieroboam the sonne of Nabat which made Israel to sinne. ¹⁰ And Sallum the sonne of Iabes conspired against him, and smote him in the sight of the people, and killed him, and raigned in his steade. ¹¹ The rest of the wordes that concerne Zacharia, beholde they are written in the booke of the cronicles of the kinges of Israel. ¹² This is also the worde of the Lorde which he spake vnto Iehu, saying: Thy sonnes shall sit on the seate of Israel in the fourth generation after thee. And so it came to passe. ¹³ Sallum the sonne of Iabes began to raigne in the thirtie and ninth yere of Uzziah king of Iuda, and he raigned a moneth in Samaria. ¹⁴ For Menahem the sonne of Gadi went vp from Thirza, & came to Samaria, and smote Sallum the sonne of Iabes in Samaria, and slue him, and raigned in his steade. ¹⁵ The rest of the wordes that concerne Sallum, and the treason which he conspired, beholde they are written in the booke of the cronicles of the kinges of Israel. ¹⁶ The same time Menahem destroyed Thiphsah, and all that were therein, & the coastes therof from Thirza: And because they opened not to him, he smote it, and ript vp al the women with childe. ¹⁷ The thirtie and ninth yere of Azaria king of Iuda began Menahem the sonne of Gadi to raigne vpon Israel ten yeres in Samaria.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Menahem: 2 Kings 23:35

exacted: Heb. caused to come forth

the mighty: Ruth 2:1, 2 Samuel 19:32, Job 1:3

of each man: etc. Or, rather, as Bishop Patrick renders, "to give to the king of Assyria fifty shekels of silver for each man," i.e., in his army. It may be supposed, that Menahem compelled "the mighty men of wealth" to give much more a-piece than this sum - somewhat about 5. sterling each and each of them in some proportion to his affluence.

stayed not: 2 Kings 15:29, 2 Kings 17:3, 2 Kings 17:4, 2 Kings 18:14-17

Reciprocal: Hosea 8:10 - for

Cross-References

Genesis 14:5
And in the fourteenth yere came Chodorlaomer and the kynges that were with hym, and smote the Giauntes in Astaroth-carnaim, and the Lusimes in Ham, and the Emims in the playne of Cariathaim.

Isaiah 17:5
And he shalbe as one that gathereth vp corne in haruest, euen lyke hym whose arme reapeth the eares of corne: He shalbe also lyke hym that gathereth eares of corne in the valley of Rephaim.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Menahem exacted the money of Israel, even of all the mighty men of wealth,.... Who were most able to pay it, by which means he eased the poor, and might thereby attach them to him:

of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king of Assyria: that is, he required them to pay fifty shekels apiece to make up the above sum as a present to Pul; though the words in the original text lie more naturally thus, "to give to the king of Assyria fifty shekels of silver for one man"; that is, for every man in his army; which amounted to about six pounds a man:

so the king of Assyria turned back; to his own country:

and stayed not there in the land; in the land of Israel, neither to distress nor to help Menahem, for which he gave him the money.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 2 Kings 12:18; 2 Kings 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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Kings 15:20. Each man fifty shekels of silver — Upwards of five pounds sterling a man.