2 Kings 12:4

12:4 Jehoash said to the priests, “I place at your disposal ¹  all the consecrated silver that has been brought to the Lord’s temple, including the silver collected from the census tax, ²  the silver received from those who have made vows, ³  and all the silver that people have voluntarily contributed to the Lord’s temple. ⁴ 

2 Kings 6:25

6:25 Samaria’s food supply ran out. ⁵  They laid siege to it so long that ⁶  a donkey’s head was selling for eighty shekels of silver ⁷  and a quarter of a kab ⁸  of dove’s droppings ⁹  for five shekels of silver. ¹⁰ 

2 Kings 25:15

25:15 The captain of the royal guard took the golden and silver censers ¹¹  and basins.

2 Kings 12:16

12:16 (The silver collected in conjunction with reparation offerings and sin offerings was not brought to the Lord’s temple; it belonged to the priests.)

2 Kings 12:13

12:13 The silver brought to the Lord’s temple was not used for silver bowls, trimming shears, basins, trumpets, or any kind of gold or silver implements.

2 Kings 12:8

12:8 The priests agreed ¹²  not to collect silver from the people and relieved themselves of personal responsibility for the temple repairs. ¹³ 

2 Kings 15:19

15:19 Pul ¹⁴  king of Assyria invaded the land, and Menahem paid ¹⁵  him ¹⁶  a thousand talents ¹⁷  of silver to gain his support ¹⁸  and to solidify his control of the kingdom. ¹⁹ 

2 Kings 23:33

23:33 Pharaoh Necho imprisoned him in Riblah in the land of Hamath and prevented him from ruling in Jerusalem. ²⁰  He imposed on the land a special tax ²¹  of one hundred talents ²²  of silver and a talent of gold.

2 Kings 5:5

5:5 The king of Syria said, “Go! I will send a letter to the king of Israel.” So Naaman ²³  went, taking with him ten talents ²⁴  of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, ²⁵  and ten suits of clothes.

2 Kings 5:22-23

5:22 He answered, “Everything is fine. ²⁶  My master sent me with this message, ‘Look, two servants of the prophets just arrived from the Ephraimite hill country. ²⁷  Please give them a talent ²⁸  of silver and two suits of clothes.’” 5:23 Naaman said, “Please accept two talents of silver. ²⁹  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. ³⁰ 

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. ³¹  They also took some silver, gold, and clothes and went and hid it all. ³²  Then they went back and entered another tent. They looted it ³³  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.” ³⁴ 

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. ³⁵  Then the king of Assyria left; he did not stay there in the land.

2 Kings 18:14

18:14 King Hezekiah of Judah sent this message to the king of Assyria, who was at Lachish, “I have violated our treaty. ³⁶  If you leave, I will do whatever you demand.” ³⁷  So the king of Assyria demanded that King Hezekiah of Judah pay three hundred talents ³⁸  of silver and thirty talents of gold.

[12:4]  ¹ tn The words “I place at your disposal” are added in the translation for clarification.

[12:4]  ² tn Heb “the silver of passing over a man.” The precise meaning of the phrase is debated, but עָבַר (’avar), “pass over,” probably refers here to counting, suggesting the reference is to a census conducted for taxation purposes. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 137.

[12:4]  ³ tn Heb “the silver of persons, his valuation.” The precise meaning of the phrase is uncertain, but parallels in Lev 27 suggest that personal vows are referred to here. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 137.

[12:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “all the silver which goes up on the heart of a man to bring to the house of the Lord.”

[6:25]  ⁵ tn Heb “and there was a great famine in Samaria.”

[6:25]  ⁶ tn Heb “and look, [they] were besieging it until.”

[6:25]  ⁷ tn Heb “eighty, silver.” The unit of measurement is omitted.

[6:25]  ⁸ sn A kab was a unit of dry measure, equivalent to approximately one quart.

[6:25]  ⁹ tn The consonantal text (Kethib) reads, “dove dung” (חֲרֵייוֹנִים, khareyonim), while the marginal reading (Qere) has “discharge” (דִּבְיוֹנִים, divyonim). Based on evidence from Akkadian, M. Cogan and H. Tadmor (II Kings [AB], 79) suggest that “dove’s dung” was a popular name for the inedible husks of seeds.

[6:25]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “five, silver.” The unit of measurement is omitted.

[25:15]  ⁹ sn These held the embers used for the incense offerings.

[12:8]  ¹³ tn Outside of this passage the verb אוּת (’ut) appears only in Gen 34:15-22.

[12:8]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and not to repair the damages to the temple.” This does not mean that the priests were no longer interested in repairing the temple. As the following context makes clear, the priests decided to hire skilled workers to repair the damage to the temple, rather than trying to make the repairs themselves.

[15:19]  ¹⁷ sn Pul was a nickname of Tiglath-pileser III (cf. 15:29). See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 171-72.

[15:19]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “gave.”

[15:19]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “Pul.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[15:19]  ²⁰ 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.”

[15:19]  ²¹ tn Heb “so his hands would be with him.”

[15:19]  ²² tn Heb “to keep hold of the kingdom in his hand.”

[23:33]  ²¹ 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.”

[23:33]  ²² tn Or “fine.”

[23:33]  ²³ 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.”

[5:5]  ²⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Naaman) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[5:5]  ²⁶ 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).

[5:5]  ²⁷ 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).

[5:22]  ²⁹ tn Heb “peace.”

[5:22]  ³⁰ tn Heb “Look now, here, two servants came to me from the Ephraimite hill country, from the sons of the prophets.”

[5:22]  ³¹ 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).

[5:23]  ³³ tn Heb “Be resolved and accept two talents.”

[5:23]  ³⁴ tn Heb “before him.”

[7:8]  ³⁷ tn Heb “they ate and drank.”

[7:8]  ³⁸ tn Heb “and they hid [it].”

[7:8]  ³⁹ tn Heb “and they took from there.”

[12:7]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “Now, do not take silver from your treasurers, because for the damages to the temple you must give it.”

[15:20]  ⁴⁵ tn 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.”

[18:14]  ⁴⁹ tn Or “I have done wrong.”

[18:14]  ⁵⁰ tn Heb “Return from upon me; what you place upon me, I will carry.”

[18:14]  ⁵¹ 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 22,500 pounds of silver and 2,250 pounds of gold.