2 Kings 5:20

Gehazi covets Naaman's gift and resolves to chase him for some reward. Greed in Elisha's servant stands in dark contrast to grace freely given.

Cross-references · 24

• 2 Kgs 4:12He said to Gehazi his servant, “Call this Shunammite.” When he had called her, she stood before him.
• 2 Kgs 4:36He called Gehazi, and said, “Call this Shunammite!” So he called her. When she had come in to him, he said, “Take up your son.”
• Titus 1:7For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward; not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;
• 2 Pet 2:14–15having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;
• 2 Kgs 4:31Gehazi went ahead of them, and laid the staff on the child’s face; but there was no voice and no hearing. Therefore he returned to meet him, and told him, “The child has not awakened.”
• 2 Kgs 6:31Then he said, “God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat stays on him today.”
• 2 Tim 4:10for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.
• Acts 8:18–19Now when Simon saw that the Holy Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money,
• Exod 20:7“You shall not take the name of Yahweh your God in vain, for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.
• 1 Tim 6:9–11But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.
• John 12:5–6“Why wasn’t this ointment sold for three hundred denarii, and given to the poor?”
• John 13:2During supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him,
• Prov 26:16The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who answer with discretion.
• Hab 2:9Woe 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!
• 1 Sam 14:39For, as Yahweh lives, 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 him.
• Luke 16:8“His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.
• Acts 5:2and kept back part of the price, his wife also being aware of it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles’ feet.
• Matt 10:4Simon the Canaanite; and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.
• 1 Pet 5:2Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, not for dishonest gain, but willingly;
• Ps 10:3For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy, and condemns Yahweh.
• John 6:70Jesus answered them, “Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?”
• Jer 22:17But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”
• Exod 20:17“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”
• Luke 12:15He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”

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