1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible

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II Kings 15:20 And Manahem laid a tax upon Israel, on all that were mighty and rich, to give the king of the Assyrians, each man fifty sicles of silver: so the king of the Assyrians turned back, and did not stay in the land.

Rich. The lower classes were not perhaps entirely exempted.