2 Raja-raja 15:19

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Pul, raja Asyur, datang menyerang negeri itu, lalu Menahem memberi seribu talenta perak kepada Pul, supaya dibantunya dia mengokohkan kerajaan itu di tangannya.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Pul, raja Asyur, datang menyerang negeri itu, lalu Menahem memberi seribu talenta perak kepada Pul, supaya dibantunya dia mengokohkan kerajaan itu di tangannya.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka pada zamannya datanglah Pul, raja benua Asyur, menyerang negeri, tetapi diberikan Menahim seribu talenta perak kepada Pul, supaya dibantunya akan dia pada meneguhkan kerajaan itu dalam tangannya.

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

am 3233, bc 771

Pul: Prideaux supposes that this Pul was the father of the famous Sardanapalus, who was called Sardan with his father's name Pul annexed, as was frequent in those times, making Sardanpul: thus Merodach, king of Babylon, was Merodach-Baladan, because he was the son Baladan. This Pul began to reign according to Usher, am 3237, the fifth year of Menahem; and he is supposed to be the same that reigned in Nineveh, when Jonah preached in that city. 1 Chronicles 5:25, 1 Chronicles 5:26, Isaiah 9:1

Menahem: 2 Kings 12:18, 2 Kings 16:8, 2 Kings 17:3, 2 Kings 17:4, 2 Kings 18:16, Hosea 5:13, Hosea 8:9, Hosea 8:10, Hosea 10:6

to confirm: 2 Kings 14:5, Jeremiah 17:5

Reciprocal: Genesis 10:22 - Elam 2 Kings 23:35 - taxed 2 Chronicles 30:6 - escaped 2 Chronicles 32:1 - king of Assyria Nehemiah 9:32 - since the time Isaiah 33:18 - receiver Ezekiel 23:5 - on the Hosea 7:9 - devoured Hosea 7:11 - they call Hosea 8:7 - the strangers Hosea 11:5 - but Hosea 12:1 - and they Amos 3:11 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 15:21
The Amorites also, and the Chanaanites, and Girgasites, & the Iebusites.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Pul the king of Assyria came against the land,.... The land of Israel, he invaded it; a Jewish chronologer u calls him Pulbelicho; and he is generally thought to be the same with Belochus or Belesis, governor of Babylon, who, with Arbaces the Mede, slew Sardanapalus, said to be the last of the Assyrian kings, and translated the empire to the Chaldeans; he ruling over Babylon and Nineveh, and Arbaces over the Medes and Persians; but Pul was not a Babylonian, but an Assyrian w, and the first king of the Assyrians, at least, the Scriptures speak of: we read no more of him; but one Metasthenes, a Persian historian, feigned and published by Annius, and so named by him instead of Megasthenes, calls him Phulbelochus, and says x he reigned forty eight years:

and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver; and a talent of silver, according to Brerewood y was three hundred and seventy five pounds; but Bishop Cumberland z calculates it at three hundred and fifty three pounds eleven shillings and ten pence half penny; 1,000 of them made a large sum of money, according to the former 375,000 pounds; and this he gave to him, not only to desist from the invasion of his land, but

that his hand might be with him; and not against him:

and to confirm the kingdom in his hand; which being got by usurpation, and supported by cruelty, was but tottering.

u David Ganz. Tzemach David, par. 2. fol. 5. 2. w See the Universal History, vol. 4. B. 1. ch. 8. sect. 5. x De Judicio Temp. & Annal. Pers. fol. 221. 2. y De Ponder & Pret. Vet. Num. c. 4. z Scripture Weights and Measures, c. 4. p. 120.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This is the first distinct mention which we find in Scripture of Assyria as an aggressive power. From the native monuments we learn that she had been for above a century pushing her conquests beyond the Euphrates, and seeking to reduce under her dominion the entire tract between that river and Egypt. Jehu had paid tribute. Some - arguing from the use of the phrase “confirmed the kingdom” (here, and in 2 Kings 14:5) - think that Jehoahaz had acknowledged Assyrian suzerainty, and consented that her monarchs should receive their investiture from the hands of the Ninevite king. But hitherto there had been no hostile invasion of Jewish or Israelite soil by an Assyrian army. Now, however, the Assyrians are at last formally introduced into the history. A series of aggressions is related in this and the four following chapters, culminating, on the one hand, in the destruction of the northern kingdom, on the other, in the complete failure of Sennacherib’s attempt upon Judaea and Egypt.

With respect to the present expedition, there are certain difficulties. The name of Pul does not appear among the Assyrian monumental kings, and it is absent from the copies of the Assyrian Canon, containing the entire list of monarchs from about 910 B.C. to 670 B.C. Assyria Proper, moreover, appears to have been in a state of depression for some 40 years before the accession of Tiglath-Pileser 2 Kings 15:29. It is probable that, during the depression of the Ninevite line, Pul, a Chaldaean and not an Assyrian king, established a second monarchy upon the Euphrates, which claimed to be the true Assyria, and was recognized as such by the nations of Syria and Palestine. His invasion was probably provoked by Menahem’s conquest of Thapsacus, which he would view as a wanton aggression upon his territory.

A thousand talents of silver - Compared with the tribute of Hezekiah soon afterward 2 Kings 18:14, this seems a large sum; but it is not beyond the resources of such a State as Samaria at the period. The tie which had bound Samaria to Assyria from the reign of Jehu to that of Jeroboam II, had ceased to exist during the period of Assyrian depression. Menahem now renewed it, undertaking the duties of a tributary, and expecting the support which Assyria was accustomed to lend to her dependencies in their struggles with their neighbors. Hence, the reproaches of Hosea (marginal reference “n”).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Kings 15:19. Pul, the king of Assyria — This is the first time we hear of Assyria since the days of Nimrod, its founder, Genesis 10:11.

Dean Prideaux supposes that this Pul was father of the famous Sardanapalus, the son himself being called Sardan; to which, as was frequent in those times, the father's name, Pul, was added, making Sardanpul of which the Greeks and Latins made Sardanapalus; and this Pul is supposed to be the same that reigned in Nineveh when Jonah preached the terrors of the Lord to that city.

That his hand — That is, his power and influence, might be with him: in this sense is the word hand frequently used in Scripture.