Verse 17
2 Kings 5:17
Literal Standard Version
17
And Naaman says, “If not, please let a couple of mules’ burden of earth be given to your servant, for your servant makes no more burnt-offering and sacrifice to other gods, but only sacrifices to YHWH.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יֹּאמֶר֮ נַעֲמָן֒ וָ/לֹ֕א יֻתַּן נָ֣א לְ/עַבְדְּ/ךָ֔ מַשָּׂ֥א צֶֽמֶד פְּרָדִ֖ים אֲדָמָ֑ה כִּ֡י לֽוֹא יַעֲשֶׂה֩ ע֨וֹד עַבְדְּ/ךָ֜ עֹלָ֤ה וָ/זֶ֨בַח֙ לֵ/אלֹהִ֣ים אֲחֵרִ֔ים כִּ֖י אִם לַ/יהוָֽה
English Translation
And Naaman said, "Please let there be given to your servant a load of two mules’ burden of earth, for your servant will no longer offer burnt offerings or sacrifices to other gods, but only to the Lord."
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Chapter 5 Context
1
And Naaman, head of the host of the king of Aram, was a great man before his lord, and accepted of f...
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And the Arameans have gone out by troops, and they take a little girl captive out of the land of Isr...
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and she says to her mistress, “O that my lord were before the prophet who is in Samaria; then he rec...
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4
And one goes in and declares it to his lord, saying, “Thus and thus the girl who is from the land of...
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5
And the king of Aram says, “Go, enter, and I send a letter to the king of Israel”; and he goes and t...
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6
And he brings in the letter to the king of Israel, saying, “And now, at the coming in of this letter...
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7
And it comes to pass, at the king of Israel’s reading the letter, that he tears his garments and say...
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8
And it comes to pass, at Elisha the man of God (Elohim)’s hearing that the king of Israel has torn h...
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9
And Naaman comes, with his horses and with his chariot, and stands at the opening of the house for E...
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10
and Elisha sends a messenger to him, saying, “Go, and you have washed seven times in the Jordan, and...
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11
And Naaman is angry, and goes on and says, “Behold, I said, He certainly comes out to me, and has st...
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12
Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Do I not wash i...
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13
And his servants come near, and speak to him, and say, “My father, the prophet had spoken a great th...
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14
And he goes down and dips in the Jordan seven times, according to the word of the man of God (Elohim...
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15
And he turns back to the man of God (Elohim), he and all his camp, and comes in, and stands before h...
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16
And he says, “YHWH lives, before whom I have stood—if I take it”; and he presses on him to take, and...
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17
And Naaman says, “If not, please let a couple of mules’ burden of earth be given to your servant, fo...
18
For in this thing may YHWH be propitious to your servant, in the coming in of my lord into the house...
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19
And he says to him, “Go in peace.” And he goes from him a distance of land,
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and Gehazi, servant of Elisha the man of God (Elohim), says, “Behold, my lord has spared this Aramea...
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21
And Gehazi pursues after Naaman, and Naaman sees one running after him, and comes down off the chari...
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22
And he says, “Peace; my lord has sent me, saying, Behold, now, this, two young men of the sons of th...
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23
And Naaman says, “Be pleased, take two talents”; and he urges him, and binds two talents of silver i...
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and he comes to the high place, and takes them out of their hand, and lays them up in the house, and...
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25
And he has come in, and stands by his lord, and Elisha says to him, “From where—Gehazi?” And he says...
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26
And he says to him, “My heart did not go when the man turned from off his chariot to meet you; is it...
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27
Indeed, the leprosy of Naaman cleaves to you and to your seed for all time”; and he goes out from be...
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