2 Kings 5:20

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Summary

But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought: but, as the LORD liveth, I will run after him, and take somewhat of him.

Gehazi

My master

As the lord liveth

2 Kings 6:31

Exodus 20:7

1 Samuel 14:39

And take

General references

Matthew 26:9

Bible References

Gehazi

And he said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite. And when he had called her, she stood before him.

Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.

Jesus answered them, Did I not choose you the twelve, and one of you is a devil?

Now he said this, not because it was a concern to him about the poor, but because he was a thief, and he had the purse and removed things that were put in.

And supper having occurred, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, that he would betray him,

Now when Simon saw that the Holy Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles' hands, he brought money to them,

My master

The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men who can render a reason.

And his lord commended the unrighteous manager because he did shrewdly. Because the sons of this age are shrewder in their own generation than the sons of the light.

Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii, and given to the poor?

and kept back from the price, his wife also having joint awareness. And having brought a certain part, he placed it at the apostles' feet.

As the lord liveth

Then he said, God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day.

Thou shall not take the name of LORD thy God in vain, for LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

For, as LORD lives, who saves Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die. But there was not a man among all the people who answered him.

And take

Thou shall not covet thy neighbor's house. Thou shall not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is thy neighbor's.

For the wicked man boasts of his heart's desire. And the greedy man renounces, [yea], despises LORD.

But thine eyes and thy heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!

And he said to them, Watch, and keep away from greed, because to any man, life to him is not in the abundance of things possessed by him.

But those who want to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, which sink men in destruction and ruin.

for Demas forsook me having loved the present age, and he went to Thessalonica, Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

For the overseer must be blameless as a steward of God, not self-willed, not prone to angry, not a drunkard, not a fighter, not greedy of base gain,

Tend ye the flock of God among you, watching over, not by obligation, but willingly, nor greedily, but readily,

having eyes full of adultery, and unceasing sin, enticing unstable souls, having a heart trained in greed, children of a curse,

General references

For this ointment could have been sold for much, and given to the poor.