Discovery Box1 Kings 15:19 
Context15:19 “I want to make a treaty with you, like the one our fathers made. 1 See, I have sent you silver and gold as a present. Break your treaty with King Baasha of Israel, so he will retreat from my land.” 2
1 Kings 20:39
Context20:39 When the king passed by, he called out to the king, “Your servant went out into the heat 3 of the battle, and then a man turned aside and brought me a prisoner. 4 He told me, ‘Guard this prisoner. If he ends up missing for any reason, 5 you will pay with your life or with a talent 6 of silver.’ 7
1 tn Heb “[May there be] a covenant between me and you [as there was] between my father and your father.”
2 tn Heb “so he will go up from upon me.”
3 tn Heb “middle.”
4 tn Heb “man” (also a second time later in this verse).
5 tn Heb “if being missed, he is missed.” The emphatic infinitive absolute before the finite verbal form lends solemnity to the warning.
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.
7 tn Heb “your life will be in place of his life, or a unit of silver you will pay.”
