2 Kings 5:18

5:18 May the Lord forgive your servant for this one thing: When my master enters the temple of Rimmon to worship, and he leans on my arm and I bow down in the temple of Rimmon, may the Lord forgive your servant for this.” 1 

2 Kings 5:22

5:22 He answered, “Everything is fine. 2  My master sent me with this message, ‘Look, two servants of the prophets just arrived from the Ephraimite hill country. 3  Please give them a talent 4  of silver and two suits of clothes.’”

2 Kings 6:22

6:22 He replied, “Do not strike them down! You did not capture them with your sword or bow, so what gives you the right to strike them down? 5  Give them some food and water, so they can eat and drink and then go back to their master.”

1 tn Heb “When my master enters the house of Rimmon to bow down there, and he leans on my hand and I bow down [in] the house of Rimmon, when I bow down [in] the house of Rimmon, may the Lord forgive your servant for this thing.”

sn Rimmon was the Syrian storm god. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 65.

2 tn Heb “peace.”

3 tn Heb “Look now, here, two servants came to me from the Ephraimite hill country, from the sons of the prophets.”

4 tn The Hebrew term כִּכָּר (kikkar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or to a standard unit of weight, generally regarded as a talent. Since the accepted weight for a talent of metal is about 75 pounds, this would have amounted to about 75 pounds of silver (cf. NCV, NLT, CEV).

5 tn Heb “Are [they] ones you captured with your sword or your bow (that) you can strike (them) down?”