2 Kings 5:20

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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 he called her, and she stood before him.

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

Jesus answered them, Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? And one of you is a devil?

He said this, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief and held the moneybag and carried the things put in.

And when supper had ended, the Devil now having put into the heart of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon to betray Him,

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

My master

The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who can give a reason.

And the unjust steward's lord commended him because he had done wisely. For the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.

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

And he kept back part of the price, his wife also knowing, and brought a certain part and laid it at the apostles' feet.

As the lord liveth

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

You shall not take the name of Jehovah your God in vain. For Jehovah will not hold him guiltless that takes His name in vain.

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

And take

You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is your neighbor's.

For the wicked boasts of his heart's desire, and blesses the covetous whom Jehovah despises.

But your eyes and your heart are for nothing but your unjust gain, and to shed innocent blood, and for cruelty, and to do violence.

Woe to him who robs evil booty for his house, to set his nest on high, to be delivered from the hand of evil!

And He said to them, Watch and keep yourselves from covetousness. For a man's life is not in the abundance of the things which he possesses.

But they who will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts which plunge men into destruction and perdition.

For Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world, and he has departed to Thessalonica. Crescens went to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

For an overseer must be blameless, as a steward of God, not self-willed, not full of passion, not given to wine, not quarrelsome, not greedy for ill gain;

Feed the flock of God among you, taking the oversight, not by compulsion, but willingly; nor for base gain, but readily;

having eyes full of adultery and never ceasing from sin, alluring unstable souls, having a heart exercised with covetousness. They are cursed children

General references

For this ointment might have been sold for very much and given to the poor.