Discovery Box2 Kings 5:5 
Context5:5 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
Context5:22 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
Context12:11 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
Context14:14 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
Context16:8 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
Context22:4 “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
Context22:9 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
Context23:33 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.
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.”
10 map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.
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.”
