2 Kings 3:4

3:4 Now King Mesha of Moab was a sheep breeder. ¹  He would send as tribute ²  to the king of Israel 100,000 male lambs and the wool of 100,000 rams.

2 Kings 24:16

24:16 The king of Babylon deported to Babylon all the soldiers (there were 7,000), as well as 1,000 craftsmen and metal workers. This included all the best warriors. ³ 

2 Kings 15:19

15:19 Pul ⁴  king of Assyria invaded the land, and Menahem paid ⁵  him ⁶  a thousand talents ⁷  of silver to gain his support ⁸  and to solidify his control of the kingdom. ⁹ 

2 Kings 18:23

18:23 Now make a deal ¹⁰  with my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, provided you can find enough riders for them.

2 Kings 5:5

5:5 The king of Syria said, “Go! I will send a letter to the king of Israel.” So Naaman ¹¹  went, taking with him ten talents ¹²  of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, ¹³  and ten suits of clothes.

2 Kings 13:7

13:7 Jehoahaz had no army left ¹⁴  except for fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and 10,000 foot soldiers. The king of Syria had destroyed his troops ¹⁵  and trampled on them like dust. ¹⁶ 

2 Kings 14:7

14:7 He defeated ¹⁷  10,000 Edomites in the Salt Valley; he captured Sela in battle and renamed it Joktheel, a name it has retained to this very day.

2 Kings 19:35

19:35 That very night the Lord’s messenger went out and killed 185,000 men in the Assyrian camp. When they ¹⁸  got up early the next morning, there were all the corpses. ¹⁹ 

2 Kings 24:14

24:14 He deported all the residents of Jerusalem, including all the officials and all the soldiers (10,000 people in all). This included all the craftsmen and those who worked with metal. No one was left except for the poorest among the people of the land.

[3:4]  ¹ tn For a discussion of the meaning of term (נֹקֵד, noqed), see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 43.

[3:4]  ² tn The vav + perfect here indicates customary action contemporary with the situation described in the preceding main clause. See IBHS 533-34 §32.2.3e.

[24:16]  ³ tn Heb “the entire [group], mighty men, doers of war.”

[15:19]  ⁵ 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]  ⁶ tn Heb “gave.”

[15:19]  ⁷ tn Heb “Pul.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[15:19]  ⁸ 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]  ⁹ tn Heb “so his hands would be with him.”

[15:19]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “to keep hold of the kingdom in his hand.”

[18:23]  ⁷ tn Heb “exchange pledges.”

[5:5]  ⁹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Naaman) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[5:5]  ¹⁰ 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]  ¹¹ 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).

[13:7]  ¹¹ tn Heb “Indeed he did not leave to Jehoahaz people.” The identity of the subject is uncertain, but the king of Syria, mentioned later in the verse, is a likely candidate.

[13:7]  ¹² tn Heb “them,” i.e., the remainder of this troops.

[13:7]  ¹³ tn Heb “and made them like dust for trampling.”

[14:7]  ¹³ tn Or “struck down.”

[19:35]  ¹⁵ tn This refers to the Israelites and/or the rest of the Assyrian army.

[19:35]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “look, all of them were dead bodies.”