^3 (A)Take ten loaves with you, some cakes and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what will happen to the boy.”

Gehazi’s Greed

¹⁵ When he returned to the man of God ^[a]with all his company, and came and stood before him, he said, “Behold now, ^(A)I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel; so please ^(B)take a ^[b]present from your servant now.”

⁸ The king said to ^(A)Hazael, “^(B)Take a gift in your hand and go to meet the man of God, and ^(C)inquire of the Lord by him, saying, ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’” ⁹ So Hazael went to meet him and took a gift in his hand, even every kind of good thing of Damascus, forty camels’ loads; and he came and stood before him and said, “^(D)Your son Ben-hadad king of Aram has sent me to you, saying, ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’”

^19 (A)For handfuls of barley and fragments of bread, you have profaned Me to My people to put to death ^[a]some who should not die and to ^(B)keep ^[b]others alive who should not live, by your lying to My people who listen to lies.”’”