2 Kings 5:22

5:22 He answered, “Everything is fine. ¹  My master sent me with this message, ‘Look, two servants of the prophets just arrived from the Ephraimite hill country. ²  Please give them a talent ³  of silver and two suits of clothes.’”

2 Kings 8:6

8:6 The king asked the woman about it, and she gave him the details. ⁴  The king assigned a eunuch to take care of her request and ordered him, ⁵  “Give her back everything she owns, as well as the amount of crops her field produced from the day she left the land until now.”

2 Kings 13:23

13:23 But the Lord had mercy on them and felt pity for them. ⁶  He extended his favor to them ⁷  because of the promise he had made ⁸  to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He has been unwilling to destroy them or remove them from his presence to this very day. ⁹ 

2 Kings 18:21

18:21 Now look, you must be trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed staff. If a man leans for support on it, it punctures his hand and wounds him. That is what Pharaoh king of Egypt does to all who trust in him.

[5:22]  ¹ tn Heb “peace.”

[5:22]  ² tn Heb “Look now, here, two servants came to me from the Ephraimite hill country, from the sons of the prophets.”

[5:22]  ³ 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).

[8:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “and the king asked the woman and she told him.”

[8:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “and he assigned to her an official, saying.”

[13:23]  ⁷ tn Or “showed them compassion.”

[13:23]  ⁸ tn Heb “he turned to them.”

[13:23]  ⁹ tn Heb “because of his covenant with.”

[13:23]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “until now.”