17 Naaman responded, “If not, please let your servant be given as much soil as a pair of mules can carry,(A) for your servant will no longer offer a burnt offering or a sacrifice to any other god but the Lord.(B) 18 However, in a particular matter may the Lord pardon your servant: When my master, the king of Aram, goes into the temple of Rimmon to bow in worship while he is leaning on my arm,[a](C) and I have to bow in the temple of Rimmon—when I bow[b] in the temple of Rimmon, may the Lord pardon your servant in this matter.”

19 So he said to him, “Go in peace.”(D)

Gehazi’s Greed Punished

After Naaman had traveled a short distance from Elisha,

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Footnotes

  1. 5:18 Lit worship, and he leans on my hand
  2. 5:18 LXX, Vg read when he bows himself

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