2 Kings 5:5

5:5 The king of Syria said, “Go! I will send a letter to the king of Israel.” So Naaman¹ went, taking with him ten talents² of silver, six thousand shekels of gold,³ and ten suits of clothes.

2 Kings 5:22-23

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 talent⁶ of silver and two suits of clothes.’” 5:23 Naaman said, “Please accept two talents of silver.⁷ He insisted, and tied up two talents of silver in two bags, along with two suits of clothes. He gave them to two of his servants and they carried them for Gehazi.⁸

2 Kings 7:8

7:8 When the men with a skin disease reached the edge of the camp, they entered a tent and had a meal.⁹ They also took some silver, gold, and clothes and went and hid it all.¹⁰ Then they went back and entered another tent. They looted it¹¹ and went and hid what they had taken.

2 Kings 12:7

12:7 So King Jehoash summoned Jehoiada the priest along with the other priests, and said to them, “Why have you not repaired the damage to the temple? Now, take no more silver from your treasurers unless you intend to use it to repair the damage.”¹²

2 Kings 15:20

15:20 Menahem got this silver by taxing all the wealthy men in Israel; he took fifty shekels of silver from each one of them and paid it to the king of Assyria.¹³ Then the king of Assyria left; he did not stay there in the land.

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

²tn 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).

³tn 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).

⁴tn Heb “peace.”

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

⁶tn 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).

⁷tn Heb “Be resolved and accept two talents.”

⁸tn Heb “before him.”

¹⁰tn Heb “they ate and drank.”

¹¹tn Heb “and they hid [it].”

¹²tn Heb “and they took from there.”

¹³tn Heb “Now, do not take silver from your treasurers, because for the damages to the temple you must give it.”

¹⁶tn Heb “and Menahem brought out the silver over Israel, over the prominent men of means, to give to the king of Assyria, fifty shekels of silver for each man.”