2 Kings 5:20
He had traveled only a short distance, when Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God said to himself, “Look, my master has spared this Naaman the Aramean by not receiving from his hands gifts that he brought. As Yahweh lives, I will run after him and receive something from him.”
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19Elisha said to him, “Go in peace.” So Naaman left.
Cross References
Exodus 20:17You must not covet your neighbor's house; you must not covet your neighbor's wife, his male servant, his female servant, his ox, his donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
2 Kings 4:12Elisha said to Gehazi his servant, “Call this Shunammite.” When he had called her, she stood before him.
2 Kings 4:31Gehazi hurried on ahead of them and laid the staff on the child's face, but the child did not speak or hear. So then Gehazi returned to meet Elisha and told him saying, “The child has not awakened.”
2 Kings 6:31Then he said, “May God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha son of Shaphat remains on him today.”
Proverbs 26:16The lazy person is wiser in his own eyes 1 than seven men who respond with good judgment. 1
Jeremiah 22:17But there is nothing in your eyes and heart except worry for your unjust profit and for pouring out innocent blood, 1 for producing oppression and crushing of others.
Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 5:16-20
15 And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him: and he said, Behold, now I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel: now therefore, I pray thee, take a blessing of thy servant. 16 But he said, As the Lord liveth, before whom I stand, I will receive none. And he urged him to take it; but he refused. 17 And Naaman said, Shall there not then, I pray thee, be given to thy servant two mules' burden of earth? for thy servant will henceforth offer neither… Read the whole commentary →