2 Kings 5:20
And Gehazi the seruant of Elisha the man of God sayde, Beholde, my master hath spared this Aramite Naaman, receiuing not those things at his hand that he brought: as the Lord liueth, I will runne after him, and take somewhat of him.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
19Vnto whome he saide, Goe in peace. So he departed from him about halfe a dayes iourney of grounde.
Cross References
Exodus 20:17Thou shalt not couet thy neighbours house, neither shalt thou couet thy neighbours wife, nor his man seruant, nor his mayde, nor his oxe, nor his asse, neyther any thing that is thy neighbours.
2 Kings 4:12And sayd to Gehazi his seruant, Call this Shunammite: and when hee called her, she stood before him.
2 Kings 4:31But Gehazi was gone before them, and had layed the staffe vpon the face of the childe, but he neither spake nor heard: wherefore hee returned to meete him, and told him, saying, The childe is not waken.
2 Kings 6:31And he saide, God doe so to me and more also, if the head of Elisha the sonne of Shaphat shall stande on him this day.
Proverbs 26:16The sluggard is wiser in his owne conceite, then seuen men that can render a reason.
Jeremiah 22:17But thine eyes and thine heart are but only for thy couetousnesse, and for to sheade innocent blood, and for oppression, and for destruction, euen to doe this.
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 →