OLD TESTAMENT

2 Kings 5:23

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Naaman said, “Be pleased to take two talents.” He urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of clothing, and laid them on two of his servants; and they carried them before him.

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Verse 23. Him. The weight must have been considerable, (6000 sicles, verse 26. Exodus 38:25. Bible.) 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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