2 Kings 5:20
Context5:20 Gehazi, the prophet Elisha’s servant, thought, 1 “Look, my master did not accept what this Syrian Naaman offered him. 2 As certainly as the Lord lives, I will run after him and accept something from him.”
2 Kings 5:27
Context5:27 Therefore Naaman’s skin disease will afflict 3 you and your descendants forever!” When Gehazi 4 went out from his presence, his skin was as white as snow. 5
1 tn Heb “said” (i.e., to himself).
2 tn Heb “Look, my master spared this Syrian Naaman by not taking from his hand what he brought.”
3 tn Heb “cling to.”
4 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Gehazi) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
5 tn Traditionally, “he went from before him, leprous like snow.” But see the note at 5:1, as well as M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 66.