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He did evil in the sight of the LORD; for all his days he did not desist from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, into which he misled Israel.

^(C1)Pul, the king of Assyria, came against the land, and Menahem gave Pul a ^(F1)thousand talents of silver so that his hand might be with him to ^(C2)strengthen the ^(F2)kingdom ^(F3)under his rule.

Then Menahem collected the money from Israel, from all the ^(F1)mighty men of wealth, from each man fifty shekels of silver to pay the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria returned and did not stay there in the land.

Now as for 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?

And Menahem ^(F1)lay down with his fathers, and his son Pekahiah became king in his place.

In ^(C1)the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekahiah the son of Menahem became king over Israel in Samaria, and reigned for two years.

He did evil in the sight of the LORD; he did not desist from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, into which he misled Israel.

Then Pekah the son of Remaliah, his officer, conspired against him and struck him in Samaria, in ^(C1)the castle of the king's house with Argob and Arieh; and with him were fifty men of the Gileadites, and he killed him and became king in his place.

Now as for the rest of the acts of Pekahiah and everything that he did, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.

In ^(C1)the fifty-second year of Azariah king of Judah, ^(C2)Pekah the son of Remaliah became king over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned for twenty years.

He did evil in the sight of the LORD; he did not desist from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, into which he misled Israel.

In the days of Pekah king of Israel, ^(F1)(C1)Tiglath-pileser the king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and ^(C2)he led ^(F2)their populations into exile to Assyria.