2 Kings 5:26

5:26 Elisha 1  replied, “I was there in spirit when a man turned and got down from his chariot to meet you. 2  This is not the proper time to accept silver or to accept clothes, olive groves, vineyards, sheep, cattle, and male and female servants. 3 

2 Kings 9:18

9:18 So the horseman 4  went to meet him and said, “This is what the king says, ‘Is everything all right?’” 5  Jehu replied, “None of your business! 6  Follow me.” The watchman reported, “The messenger reached them, but hasn’t started back.”

2 Kings 18:14

18:14 King Hezekiah of Judah sent this message to the king of Assyria, who was at Lachish, “I have violated our treaty. 7  If you leave, I will do whatever you demand.” 8  So the king of Assyria demanded that King Hezekiah of Judah pay three hundred talents 9  of silver and thirty talents of gold.

1 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

2 tn Heb “Did not my heart go as a man turned from his chariot to meet you?” The rhetorical question emphasizes that he was indeed present in “heart” (or “spirit”) and was very much aware of what Gehazi had done. In the MT the interrogative particle has been accidentally omitted before the negative particle.

3 tn In the MT the statement is phrased as a rhetorical question, “Is this the time…?” It expects an emphatic negative response.

4 tn Heb “the rider of the horse.”

5 tn Heb “Is there peace?”

6 tn Heb “What concerning you and concerning peace?” That is, “What concern is that to you?”

7 tn Or “I have done wrong.”

8 tn Heb “Return from upon me; what you place upon me, I will carry.”

9 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 22,500 pounds of silver and 2,250 pounds of gold.