Discovery Box2 Kings 8:22 
Context8:22 So Edom has remained free from Judah’s control to this very day. 1 At that same time Libnah also rebelled.
2 Kings 15:19
Context15:19 Pul 2 king of Assyria invaded the land, and Menahem paid 3 him 4 a thousand talents 5 of silver to gain his support 6 and to solidify his control of the kingdom. 7
1 tn Heb “and Edom rebelled from under the hand of Judah until this day.”
2 sn Pul was a nickname of Tiglath-pileser III (cf. 15:29). See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 171-72.
3 tn Heb “gave.”
4 tn Heb “Pul.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
5 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 75,000 pounds of silver (cf. NCV “about seventy-four thousand pounds”); NLT “thirty-seven tons”; CEV “over thirty tons”; TEV “34,000 kilogrammes.”
6 tn Heb “so his hands would be with him.”
7 tn Heb “to keep hold of the kingdom in his hand.”
