2 Raja-raja 15:20

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.

Parallel Translations

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.

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.

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

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.