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2 Kings 5:17-19
Holman Christian Standard Bible
2 Kings 5:17-19
Holman Christian Standard Bible
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 Yahweh.(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 worship and I, as his right-hand man,[a](C) 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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- 2 Kings 5:18 Lit worship, and he leans on my hand, and I
- 2 Kings 5:18 LXX, Vg read when he bows himself
2 Kings 5:17-19
New International Version
2 Kings 5:17-19
New International Version
17 “If you will not,” said Naaman, “please let me, your servant, be given as much earth(A) as a pair of mules can carry, for your servant will never again make burnt offerings and sacrifices to any other god but the Lord. 18 But may the Lord forgive your servant for this one thing: When my master enters the temple of Rimmon to bow down and he is leaning(B) on my arm and I have to bow there also—when I bow down in the temple of Rimmon, may the Lord forgive your servant for this.”
19 “Go in peace,”(C) Elisha said.
After Naaman had traveled some distance,
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