2 Kings 5:22-23
5:22 He answered, “Everything is fine. 1 My master sent me with this message, ‘Look, two servants of the prophets just arrived from the Ephraimite hill country. 2 Please give them a talent 3 of silver and two suits of clothes.’”
5:23 Naaman said, “Please accept two talents of silver. 4 He insisted, and tied up two talents of silver in two bags, along with two suits of clothes. He gave them to two of his servants and they carried them for Gehazi. 5
2 Kings 6:17
6:17 Then Elisha prayed, “O Lord, open his eyes so he can see.” The Lord opened the servant’s eyes and he saw that 6 the hill was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.
2 Kings 10:21
10:21 Jehu sent invitations throughout Israel, and all the servants of Baal came; not one was absent. They arrived at the temple of Baal and filled it up from end to end. 7
2 Kings 12:21
12:21 His servants Jozabad son of Shimeath and Jehozabad son of Shomer murdered him. 8 He was buried 9 with his ancestors in the city of David. His son Amaziah replaced him as king.
2 Kings 17:23
17:23 Finally 10 the Lord rejected Israel 11 just as he had warned he would do 12 through all his servants the prophets. Israel was deported from its land to Assyria and remains there to this very day.
2 Kings 19:6
19:6 Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master this: ‘This is what the Lord says: “Don’t be afraid because of the things you have heard – these insults the king of Assyria’s servants have hurled against me. 13
2 Kings 22:9
22:9 Shaphan the scribe went to the king and reported, 14 “Your servants melted down the silver in the temple 15 and handed it over to the construction foremen assigned to the Lord’s temple.”
2 Kings 24:2
24:2 The Lord sent against him Babylonian, Syrian, Moabite, and Ammonite raiding bands; he sent them to destroy Judah, as he had warned he would do through his servants the prophets. 16
2 Kings 24:12
24:12 King Jehoiachin of Judah, along with his mother, his servants, his officials, and his eunuchs surrendered 17 to the king of Babylon. The king of Babylon, in the eighth year of his reign, 18 took Jehoiachin 19 prisoner.
1 tn Heb “peace.”
2 tn Heb “Look now, here, two servants came to me from the Ephraimite hill country, from the sons of the prophets.”
3 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).
4 tn Heb “Be resolved and accept two talents.”
5 tn Heb “before him.”
6 tn Heb “and he saw, and look.”
7 tn Heb “and the house of Baal was filled mouth to mouth.”
8 tn Heb “struck him down and he died.”
9 tn Heb “they buried him.”
10 tn Heb “until.”
11 tn Heb “the Lord turned Israel away from his face.”
12 tn Heb “just as he said.”
13 tn Heb “by which the servants of the king of Assyria have insulted me.”
14 tn Heb “returned the king a word and said.”
15 tn Heb “that was found in the house.”
16 tn Heb “he sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the Lord which he spoke by the hand of his servants the prophets.”
17 tn Heb “came out.”
18 sn That is, the eighth year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign, 597 b.c.
19 tn Heb “him”; the referent (Jehoiachin) has been specified in the translation for clarity.