²⁰ Menahem exacted the money from Israel, even from all the mighty men of wealth, from each man fifty shekels^[a] of silver, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and didn’t stay there in the land. ²¹ Now the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? ²² Menahem slept with his fathers, and Pekahiah his son reigned in his place.