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2 Kings 5:20-22
New English Translation
2 Kings 5:20-22
New English Translation
20 Gehazi, the prophet Elisha’s servant, thought,[a] “Look, my master did not accept what this Syrian Naaman offered him.[b] As certainly as the Lord lives, I will run after him and accept something from him.” 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?”[c] 22 He answered, “Everything is fine.[d] My master sent me with this message, ‘Look, two servants of the prophets just arrived from the Ephraimite hill country.[e] Please give them a talent[f] of silver and two suits of clothes.’”
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- 2 Kings 5:20 tn Heb “said” (i.e., to himself).
- 2 Kings 5:20 tn Heb “Look, my master spared this Syrian Naaman by not taking from his hand what he brought.”
- 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).
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