2 Kings 5:19-27

Modern English Version

¹⁹ He said to him, “Go in peace.” So he departed from him a short distance.

Gehazi’s Greed

²⁰ Then Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God said, “My master has spared Naaman the Aramean by not taking from his hands what he brought. As the Lord lives, I will run after him and take something from him.”

²¹ So Gehazi pursued Naaman. Then Naaman saw him running after him, jumped down from the chariot to meet him, and said, “Is everything all right?”

²² And he said, “Everything is all right. My master has sent me and says, ‘Even now two servants from Ephraim, from the sons of the prophets, have come to me. Give them a talent^[a] of silver and two changes of clothes.’ ”

²³ Naaman said, “Please, take two talents.” He urged him and tied up two talents of silver in two bags with two changes of clothes and gave them to two of his servants, who carried them before Gehazi. ²⁴ When he came to Ophel, he took them from their hand and put them away in the house. Then he sent the men away, and they departed.

²⁵ Then he entered and stood before his master. And Elisha said to him, “Where have you come from, Gehazi?”

And he said, “Your servant went here and there.”

²⁶ He said to him, “Did my heart not go with you when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to take money, and to take garments, olives and vineyards, sheep and oxen, male and female servants? ²⁷ The leprosy of Naaman will cling to you and to your descendants forever.” So he went out from his presence, leprous like snow.