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The LORDstruck the king, so that he was a leper to the day of his death. And he lived in a separatehouse, while Jotham the king'sson was over the household, judging the people of the land.
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Then Menahemson of Gadiwent up from Tirzah and came to Samaria, and struckShallumson of Jabesh in Samaria, and killed him and becameking in his place.
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ThenMenahemstruckTiphsah and allwho were in it and its borders from Tirzah, because they did not open to him; therefore he struck it and ripped up all its women who were with child.
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Pul, king of Assyria, cameagainst the land, and MenahemgavePul a thousandtalents of silver so that his hand might be with him to strengthen the kingdom under his rule.
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Then Menahemexacted the money from Israel, even from all the mightymen of wealth, from eachmanfiftyshekels of silver to pay the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyriareturned and did not remainthere in the land.
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Then Pekahson of Remaliah, his officer, conspiredagainst him and struck him in Samaria, in the castle of the king'shouse with Argob and Arieh; and with him were fiftymen of the Gileadites*, and he killed him and becameking in his place.
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In the days of Pekahking of Israel, Tiglath-pileserking of Assyriacame and capturedIjon and Abel-beth-maacah and Janoah and Kedesh and Hazor and Gilead and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria.
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And Hoshea the son of Elahmade a conspiracyagainstPekah the son of Remaliah, and struck him and put him to death and becameking in his place, in the twentiethyear of Jotham the son of Uzziah.
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Only the highplaces were not takenaway; the peoplestillsacrificed and burnedincense on the highplaces. He built the uppergate of the house of the LORD.