Study it in the app“Menahem imposed the silver on Israel, on all the men of worth, to give to the king of Assyria, fifty shekels of silver from each man. So the king of Assyria turned back and did not stay there in the land.”
Menahemמְנַחֵםimposedוַיֹּצֵאthe silverאֶת הַכֶּסֶףon Israel,עַל יִשְׂרָאֵלon allעַל כָּלthe menגִּבּוֹרֵיof worth,הַחַיִלto giveלָתֵתto the kingלְמֶלֶךְof Assyria,אַשּׁוּרfiftyחֲמִשִּׁיםshekelsשְׁקָלִיםof silverכֶּסֶףfrom eachלְ אֶחָדman.אִישׁSo the kingוַ מֶלֶךְof Assyriaאַשּׁוּרturned backיָּשָׁבand did notוְלֹאstayעָמַדthereשָׁםin the land.בָּאָרֶץ
Menahem
Menahem. A personal name meaning "comforter." King of Israel, son of Gadi; he took the throne by killing Shallum and reigned ten years in Samaria (2 Kings 15:14-22).
Where else “menachem” appearsgo out
To go out of a place.
Where else “yotse” appearssilver
A white, valuable metal, the one most used after gold.
Where else “kesef” appearsIsrael
Israel, the new name Jacob received from God, explained as "you have striven with God" (Genesis 32:28); then the name of the people that came from him and, after the division, of the northern kingdom.
Where else “yisrael” appearswarrior
A brave warrior, or a capable man.
Where else “gibore” appearswealth
The goods and wealth someone gathers.
Where else “chayil” appearsgive
To hand something over to someone: a gift, a payment, a charge or a land.
Where else “tet” appearsking
A king who rules a people.
Where else “melech” appearsAssyria, Asshur
See it on the mapWhere else “ashur” appearsfifty
Fifty.
Where else “chamishim” appearsshekel
Shekel: a weight of about 11 grams. Since there were no coins, silver was weighed, so a shekel is also an amount of money.
Where else “shekalim” appearseach
Literally "one": all of them, one by one.
Where else “echad” appearsman
An adult male person; also each man of a people, a trade or a place.
Where else “ish” appearsreturn
To go back to a place.
Where else “yashav” appearsstop
To halt, cease doing something.
Where else “amad” appearsland
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “arets” appears“Men of worth”: the Hebrew expression is said both of the valiant in war and of those who have wealth; it can be understood that here they are those who could pay.
Assyria
Today: northern Iraq (with parts of Syria, Turkey, Iran)
An empire of northern Mesopotamia along the Tigris River, in present-day Iraq.
Assyria took the northern kingdom of Israel captive (2 Kgs 17:6). God sent Jonah to preach in Nineveh, its capital (Jonah 3:3).
19Pul king of Assyria came against the land, and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, so that his hands might be with him to strengthen the kingdom in his hand.
20 · This verse (above)
21The 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?
