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Gehazi’s Greed is Punished

15 Naaman[a] went back to the man of God, along with his entire entourage, and stood before him. “Please look!” he said. “I know that there is no God in all the earth, except in Israel! So please, take a present from your servant.”

16 But Elisha[b] replied, “As the Lord lives, before whom I stand, I will not receive anything from you.” Though Naaman[c] urged him to take it, Elisha[d] declined.

17 So Naaman asked, “No? Then please let your servant load two mules with dirt from Israel,[e] because your servant will no longer offer any burnt offering or sacrifice to any other god but the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 5:15 Lit. He
  2. 2 Kings 5:16 Lit. he
  3. 2 Kings 5:16 Lit. he
  4. 2 Kings 5:16 Lit. he
  5. 2 Kings 5:17 The Heb. lacks from Israel