²⁹ Then he said to Gehazi, “^(A)Gird up your loins and ^(B)take my staff in your hand, and go; if you meet anyone, do not ^[a](C)greet him, and if anyone ^[b]greets you, do not answer him; and ^(D)lay my staff on the boy’s face.” ³⁰ But the mother of the boy said, “^(E)As Yahweh lives and as your soul lives, I will not forsake you.” And he arose and followed her. ³¹ Now Gehazi passed on before them and laid the staff on the boy’s face, but there was no sound or ^[c]response. So he returned to meet him and told him, saying, “The boy ^(F)has not awakened.”

²⁰ Then ^(A)Gehazi, the young man of Elisha the man of God, said to himself, “Behold, my master has spared this Naaman the Aramean, ^[a]by not receiving from his hands what he brought. ^(B)As Yahweh lives, I will run after him and take something from him.” ²¹ So Gehazi pursued Naaman. And Naaman saw one running after him, so he came down from the chariot to meet him and said, “Is all at peace?” ²² And he said, “^(C)All is at peace. My master has sent me, saying, ‘Behold, just now two young men of the sons of the prophets have come to me from ^(D)the hill country of Ephraim. Please give them a talent of silver and ^(E)two changes of clothes.’” ²³ Then Naaman said, “^(F)Be pleased to take two talents.” And he urged him and bound two talents of silver in two bags with two changes of clothes and gave them to two of his young men; and they carried them before him. ²⁴ So he came to the ^[b]hill, and he took them from their hand and ^(G)deposited them in the house. Then he sent the men away, and they departed. ²⁵ But he came in and stood before his master. And Elisha said to him, “Where have you been, Gehazi?” And he said, “^(H)Your servant went nowhere.”

²⁶ Then he said to him, “Did not my heart go with you, when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? ^(I)Is it a time to receive money and to receive clothes and olive groves and vineyards and sheep and oxen and male and female slaves? ²⁷ Thus the leprosy of Naaman shall cling to you and to your seed forever.” So he went out from his presence ^(J)a leper as white as snow.

⁴ Now the king was speaking with ^(A)Gehazi, the young man of the man of God, saying, “Please recount to me all the great things that Elisha has done.” ⁵ Now it happened as he was recounting to the king ^(B)how he had restored to life the one who was dead, that behold, the woman whose son he had restored to life was crying out to the king for her house and for her field. And Gehazi said, “My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.”