2 Kings 5:5

5:5 The king of Syria said, “Go! I will send a letter to the king of Israel.” So Naaman ¹  went, taking with him ten talents ²  of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, ³  and ten suits of clothes.

2 Kings 5:22

5:22 He answered, “Everything is fine. ⁴  My master sent me with this message, ‘Look, two servants of the prophets just arrived from the Ephraimite hill country. ⁵  Please give them a talent ⁶  of silver and two suits of clothes.’”

2 Kings 12:11

12:11 They would then hand over ⁷  the silver that had been weighed to the construction foremen ⁸  assigned to the Lord’s temple. They hired carpenters and builders to work on the Lord’s temple,

2 Kings 14:14

14:14 He took away all the gold and silver, all the items found in the Lord’s temple and in the treasuries of the royal palace, and some hostages. ⁹  Then he went back to Samaria. ¹⁰ 

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2 Kings 16:8

16:8 Then Ahaz took the silver and gold that were ¹¹  in the Lord’s temple and in the treasuries of the royal palace and sent it as tribute ¹²  to the king of Assyria.

2 Kings 22:4

22:4 “Go up to Hilkiah the high priest and have him melt down ¹³  the silver that has been brought by the people to the Lord’s temple and has been collected by the guards at the door.

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 23:33

23:33 Pharaoh Necho imprisoned him in Riblah in the land of Hamath and prevented him from ruling in Jerusalem. ¹⁶  He imposed on the land a special tax ¹⁷  of one hundred talents ¹⁸  of silver and a talent of gold.

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

² 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 750 pounds of silver (cf. NCV, NLT, CEV).

³ tn Heb “six thousand gold […].” The unit of measure is not given in the Hebrew text. A number of English versions supply “pieces” (e.g., KJV, ASV, NAB, TEV) or “shekels” (e.g., NASB, NIV, NRSV).

⁴ tn Heb “peace.”

⁵ tn Heb “Look now, here, two servants came to me from the Ephraimite hill country, from the sons of the prophets.”

⁶ 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).

⁷ tn Heb “would give.”

⁸ tn Heb “doers of the work.”

⁹ tn Heb “the sons of the pledges.”

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¹¹ tn Heb “that was found.”

¹² tn Or “bribe money.”

¹³ tc The MT has וְיַתֵּם (vÿyattem), “and let them add up” (Hiphil of תָּמָם [tammam], “be complete”), but the appearance of הִתִּיכוּ (hitikhu), “they melted down” (Hiphil of נָתַךְ [natakh], “pour out”) in v. 9 suggests that the verb form should be emended to וְיַתֵּךְ (vÿyattekh), “and let him melt down” (a Hiphil of נָתַךְ [natakh]). For a discussion of this and other options see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 281.

¹⁴ tn Heb “returned the king a word and said.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “that was found in the house.”

¹⁶ tc The consonantal text (Kethib) has “when [he was] ruling in Jerusalem,” but the marginal reading (Qere), which has support from Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic, and Latin witnesses, has “[preventing him] from ruling in Jerusalem.”

¹⁷ tn Or “fine.”

¹⁸ 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 7,500 pounds of silver and 75 pounds of gold (cf. NCV, NLT); CEV “almost four tons of silver and about seventy-five pounds of gold.”