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2 Kings 5:21-23
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2 Kings 5:21-23
New English Translation
21 So Gehazi ran after Naaman. When Naaman saw someone running after him, he got down from his chariot to meet him and asked, “Is everything all right?”[a] 22 He answered, “Everything is fine.[b] My master sent me with this message, ‘Look, two servants of the prophets just arrived from the Ephraimite hill country.[c] Please give them a talent[d] of silver and two suits of clothes.’” 23 Naaman said, “Please accept two talents of silver.”[e] 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.[f]
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- 2 Kings 5:21 tn Heb “Is there peace?”
- 2 Kings 5:22 tn Heb “peace.”
- 2 Kings 5:22 tn Heb “Look now, here, two servants came to me from the Ephraimite hill country, from the sons of the prophets.”
- 2 Kings 5:22 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).
- 2 Kings 5:23 tn Heb “Be resolved and accept two talents.”
- 2 Kings 5:23 tn Heb “before him.”
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