2Ki 5:5-7 | ESV | STEP | And the king of Syria said , Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel . So he went , taking with him ten talents of silver , six thousand shekels of gold, and ten changes of clothing .

2 Kings 5:5-7

5 And the king of Syria said, “Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel.”

So he went, ^ataking with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels ^{▼▼A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms; a shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams} of gold, and ten ^cchanges of clothing. 6 And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, which read, “When this letter reaches you, know that I have sent to you Naaman my servant, that you may cure him of his leprosy.” 7 And when the king of Israel read the letter, ^dhe tore his clothes and said, ^e“Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends word to me to cure a man of his leprosy? Only ^fconsider, and see how he is seeking a quarrel with me.”