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- Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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Adam Clarke Commentary
He - bound two talents of silver - It required two servants to carry these two talents, for, according to the computation above, each talent was about 120lbs. weight.
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Clarke, Adam. "Commentary on 2 Kings 5:23". "The Adam Clarke Commentary". https:/
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible
Be content - i. e. “consent.”
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Barnes, Albert. "Commentary on 2 Kings 5:23". "Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible". https:/
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible
And Naaman said, be content,.... Or be pleased; do not object to it:
take two talents: a talent for each young man, which amounted to between three hundred and four hundred pounds apiece:
and he urged; pressed him hard, insisted upon his taking them, who might pretend a great deal of modesty, and a strict regard to his master's orders:
and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of garments; for each young man:
and laid them upon two of his servants, the servants of Naaman, not choosing to burden Elisha's servant with them; for such a quantity of money and clothes was pretty heavy:
and they bare them before him; both for his ease, and for his honour.
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Gill, John. "Commentary on 2 Kings 5:23". "The New John Gill Exposition of the Entire Bible". https:/
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
in two bags — People in the East, when travelling, have their money, in certain sums, put up in bags.
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Jamieson, Robert, D.D.; Fausset, A. R.; Brown, David. "Commentary on 2 Kings 5:23". "Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible". https:/
Keil & Delitzsch Old Testament Commentary
But Naaman forced him to accept two talents ( קח הואל, be pleased to take; and כּכּרים, with the dual ending, ne pereat indicium numeri - Winer) in two purses, and two changes of raiment, and out of politeness had these presents carried by two of his servants before Gehazi.
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Wesley's Explanatory Notes
And Naaman said, Be content, take two talents. And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of garments, and laid them upon two of his servants; and they bare them before him.
Urged him — Who at first refused it upon a pretence of modesty.
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Wesley, John. "Commentary on 2 Kings 5:23". "John Wesley's Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible". https:/
John Trapp Complete Commentary
2 Kings 5:23 And Naaman said, Be content, take two talents. And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of garments, and laid [them] upon two of his servants; and they bare [them] before him.
Ver. 23. Be content, take two talents.] Which amount to seven hundred and fifty pounds sterling. God saith as much in effect to his suitors, pressing and heaping mercies upon them. [John 16:24]
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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible
He urged him, who at first refused it upon a pretence of modesty and obedience to his master’s command.
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Whedon's Commentary on the Bible
23.Naaman said’ take two talents — Worth about three thousand three hundred and twenty dollars.
Upon two of his servants — Naaman’s servants. Comp. 2 Kings 5:24. The gift was a weight which one could not well carry.
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Whedon, Daniel. "Commentary on 2 Kings 5:23". "Whedon's Commentary on the Bible". https:/
George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
Him. The weight must have been considerable, (6000 sicles, ver. 26., and Exodus xxxviii. 25.; Haydock) otherwise Giezi would have preferred carrying them himself, that his master might not know. (Calmet) --- He had pretended a reluctance to take more than one talent, not to swerve from his master's injunctions. (Menochius)
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Haydock, George Leo. "Commentary on 2 Kings 5:23". "George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary". https:/
E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
take = accept. Some codices, with one early printed edition, read "and accept".
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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Unabridged
And Naaman said, Be content, take two talents. And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of garments, and laid them upon two of his servants; and they bare them before him.
In two bags. People in the East, when traveling, have their money, in certain sums, put up in bags.
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Jamieson, Robert, D.D.; Fausset, A. R.; Brown, David. "Commentary on 2 Kings 5:23". "Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Unabridged". https:/
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
(23) Be content.—Be willing, consent to take. The Vatican LXX. omits; the Alexandrian renders αὐτοῦ, owing to a transposition of the Hebrew letters (hălô’ for hô’êl).
Bound.—Deuteronomy 14:25.
Bags.—Only here and in Isaiah 3:22, where it means “purses.”
Laid them upon two.—Gave them to two of his (i.e., Naaman’s) young men. The courtesy of the act is obvious.
Before him.—Gehazi.
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Ellicott, Charles John. "Commentary on 2 Kings 5:23". "Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers". https:/
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And Naaman said, Be content, take two talents. And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of garments, and laid them upon two of his servants; and they bare them before him.- Be content
- 1 Kings 20:7; Luke 11:54
- And he urged him
- 16; 2:17
- bound
- 12:10; *marg:
- and they bare
- Isaiah 30:6
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Torrey, R. A. "Commentary on 2 Kings 5:23". "The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge". https:/
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