2 Kings 5:5

5:5 The king of Syria said, “Go! I will send a letter to the king of Israel.” So Naaman ¹  went, taking with him ten talents ²  of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, ³  and ten suits of clothes.

2 Kings 25:27

Jehoiachin in Babylon

25:27 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-seventh ⁴  day of the twelfth month, ⁵  King Evil-Merodach of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned ⁶  King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him ⁷  from prison.

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

[5:5]  ² 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]  ³ 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).

[25:27]  ⁴ sn The parallel account in Jer 52:31 has “twenty-fifth.”

[25:27]  ⁵ sn The twenty-seventh day would be March 22, 561 b.c. in modern reckoning.

[25:27]  ⁶ tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”

[25:27]  ⁷ tn The words “released him” are supplied in the translation on the basis of Jer 52:31.