2 Kings 5:22

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.’”

2 Kings 9:5

9:5 When he arrived, the officers of the army were sitting there. ⁴  So he said, “I have a message for you, O officer.” ⁵  Jehu asked, “For which one of us?” ⁶  He replied, “For you, O officer.”

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 16:11

16:11 Uriah the priest built an altar in conformity to the plans King Ahaz had sent from Damascus. ⁸  Uriah the priest finished it before King Ahaz arrived back from Damascus. ⁹ 

2 Kings 25:8

Nebuchadnezzar Destroys Jerusalem

25:8 On the seventh ¹⁰  day of the fifth month, ¹¹  in the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard ¹²  who served the king of Babylon, arrived in Jerusalem. ¹³ 

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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 “and he arrived and look, the officers of the army were sitting.”

⁵ tn Heb “[there is] a word for me to you, O officer.”

⁶ tn Heb “To whom from all of us?”

⁷ tn Heb “and the house of Baal was filled mouth to mouth.”

⁸ tn Heb “according to all that King Ahaz sent from Damascus.”

⁹ tn Heb “so Uriah the priest did, until the arrival of King Ahaz from Damascus.”

¹⁰ tn The parallel account in Jer 52:12 has “tenth.”

¹¹ sn The seventh day of the month would have been August 14, 586 b.c. in modern reckoning.

¹² tn For the meaning of this phrase see BDB 371 s.v. טַבָּח 2, and compare the usage in Gen 39:1.

¹³ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.