Menahem exacted the money Fifty shekels=one maneh, was the sixtieth part of a talent of silver. Hence the mighty men of wealth must have numbered 60,000, a number which tells of the richness of the time. The population of Israel in David's time had 800,000 soldiers (2 Samuel 24:9).

stayed not there He had evidently made his approach to the very border, and perhaps over it.

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