2 Kings 5:26

5:26 Elisha ¹  replied, “I was there in spirit when a man turned and got down from his chariot to meet you. ²  This is not the proper time to accept silver or to accept clothes, olive groves, vineyards, sheep, cattle, and male and female servants. ³ 

2 Kings 12:9

12:9 Jehoiada the priest took a chest and drilled a hole in its lid. He placed it on the right side of the altar near the entrance of ⁴  the Lord’s temple. The priests who guarded the entrance would put into it all the silver brought to the Lord’s temple.

2 Kings 12:11

12:11 They would then hand over ⁵  the silver that had been weighed to the construction foremen ⁶  assigned to the Lord’s temple. They hired carpenters and builders to work on the Lord’s temple,

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 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. ⁷  Then the king of Assyria left; he did not stay there in the land.

2 Kings 22:9

22:9 Shaphan the scribe went to the king and reported, ⁸  “Your servants melted down the silver in the temple ⁹  and handed it over to the construction foremen assigned to the Lord’s temple.”

[5:26]  ¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[5:26]  ² tn Heb “Did not my heart go as a man turned from his chariot to meet you?” The rhetorical question emphasizes that he was indeed present in “heart” (or “spirit”) and was very much aware of what Gehazi had done. In the MT the interrogative particle has been accidentally omitted before the negative particle.

[5:26]  ³ tn In the MT the statement is phrased as a rhetorical question, “Is this the time…?” It expects an emphatic negative response.

[12:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “on the right side of the altar as a man enters.”

[12:11]  ⁷ tn Heb “would give.”

[12:11]  ⁸ tn Heb “doers of the work.”

[15:20]  ¹⁰ 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.”

[22:9]  ¹³ tn Heb “returned the king a word and said.”

[22:9]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “that was found in the house.”