2Kings:15:17-22

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* In the thirty-ninth year of Azariah king of Judah , Menahem the son of Gadi became king over Israel , and reigned ten years in Samaria . * And he did evil in the sight of the LORD ; he did not depart all his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat , who had made Israel sin . * Pul king of Assyria came against the land ; and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver , that his hand might be with him to strengthen the kingdom under his control . * And Menahem exacted the money from Israel , from all the very wealthy , from each man fifty shekels of silver , to give to the king of Assyria . So the king of Assyria turned back , and did not stay there in the land . * Now 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 ? * So Menahem rested with his fathers . Then Pekahiah his son reigned in his place .

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