20. Menahem got the money from the rich men of Israel by forcing each one to contribute fifty pieces of silver. So Tiglath Pileser went back to his own country.
21. Everything else that Menahem did is recorded in The History of the Kings of Israel.
22. He died and was buried, and his son Pekahiah succeeded him as king.
23. In the fiftieth year of the reign of King Uzziah of Judah, Pekahiah son of Menahem became king of Israel, and he ruled in Samaria for two years.
24. He sinned against the Lord, following the wicked example of King Jeroboam son of Nebat, who led Israel into sin.
25. An officer of Pekahiah's forces, Pekah son of Remaliah, plotted with fifty men from Gilead, assassinated Pekahiah in the palace's inner fortress in Samaria, and succeeded him as king.
26. Everything else that Pekahiah did is recorded in The History of the Kings of Israel.
27. In the 52nd year of the reign of King Uzziah of Judah, Pekah son of Remaliah became king of Israel, and he ruled in Samaria for twenty years.
28. He sinned against the Lord, following the wicked example of King Jeroboam son of Nebat, who led Israel into sin.
29. It was while Pekah was king that Tiglath Pileser, the emperor of Assyria, captured the cities of Ijon, Abel Beth Maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, and Hazor, and the territories of Gilead, Galilee, and Naphtali, and took the people to Assyria as prisoners.
30. In the twentieth year of the reign of Jotham son of Uzziah as king of Judah, Hoshea son of Elah plotted against King Pekah, assassinated him, and succeeded him as king.
31. Everything else that Pekah did is recorded in The History of the Kings of Israel.
32. In the second year of the reign of Pekah son of Remaliah as king of Israel, Jotham son of Uzziah became king of Judah