2 Kings 5:16

Webster's Bible (1833)

But he said, As Yahweh lives, before whom I stand, I will receive none. He urged him to take it; but he refused.

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  • 2 Kgs 3:14 : 14 Elisha said, As Yahweh of Hosts lives, before whom I stand, surely, were it not that I regard the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not look toward you, nor see you.
  • 2 Kgs 5:20 : 20 But Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought: as Yahweh lives, I will run after him, and take somewhat of him.
  • 2 Kgs 5:26 : 26 He said to him, Didn't my heart go with you, when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and olive groves and vineyards, and sheep and oxen, and men-servants and maid-servants?
  • Dan 5:17 : 17 Then Daniel answered before the king, Let your gifts be to yourself, and give your rewards to another; nevertheless I will read the writing to the king, and make known to him the interpretation.
  • Gen 14:22-23 : 22 Abram said to the king of Sodom, "I have lifted up my hand to Yahweh, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth, 23 that I will not take a thread nor a shoe-latchet nor anything that is yours, lest you should say, 'I have made Abram rich.'
  • 1 Kgs 17:1 : 1 Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the foreigners of Gilead, said to Ahab, As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
  • 1 Kgs 18:15 : 15 Elijah said, As Yahweh of Hosts lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him today.
  • 1 Kgs 13:8 : 8 The man of God said to the king, If you will give me half your house, I will not go in with you, neither will I eat bread nor drink water in this place;
  • Matt 10:8 : 8 Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers{TR adds ", raise the dead"}, and cast out demons. Freely you received, so freely give.
  • Acts 8:18-20 : 18 Now when Simon saw that the Holy Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles' hands, he offered them money, 19 saying, "Give me also this power, that whoever I lay my hands on may receive the Holy Spirit." 20 But Peter said to him, "May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!
  • Acts 20:33-35 : 33 I coveted no one's silver, or gold, or clothing. 34 You yourselves know that these hands ministered to my necessities, and to those who were with me. 35 In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"
  • 1 Cor 6:12 : 12 "All things are lawful for me," but not all things are expedient. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be brought under the power of anything.
  • 1 Cor 10:32-33 : 32 Give no occasions for stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of God; 33 even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.
  • 2 Cor 11:9-9 : 9 When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn't a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so. 10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
  • 2 Cor 12:14 : 14 Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Kgs 5:17-21
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    84%

    17Naaman said, If not, yet, please let there be given to your servant two mules' burden of earth; for your servant will henceforth offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice to other gods, but to Yahweh.

    18In this thing Yahweh pardon your servant: when my master goes into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leans on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon, when I bow myself in the house of Rimmon, Yahweh pardon your servant in this thing.

    19He said to him, Go in peace. So he departed from him a little way.

    20But Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought: as Yahweh lives, I will run after him, and take somewhat of him.

    21So Gehazi followed after Naaman. When Naaman saw one running after him, he alighted from the chariot to meet him, and said, Is all well?

  • 2 Kgs 5:15
    78%

    15He returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him; and he said, See now, I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel: now therefore, please take a present from your servant.

  • 2 Kgs 5:9-13
    5 verses
    76%

    9So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariots, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha.

    10Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall come again to you, and you shall be clean.

    11But Naaman was angry, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of Yahweh his God, and wave his hand over the place, and recover the leper.

    12Aren't Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage.

    13His servants came near, and spoke to him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid you do some great thing, wouldn't you have done it? how much rather then, when he says to you, Wash, and be clean?

  • 2 Kgs 3:13-14
    2 verses
    76%

    13Elisha said to the king of Israel, What have I to do with you? get you to the prophets of your father, and to the prophets of your mother. The king of Israel said to him, No; for Yahweh has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab.

    14Elisha said, As Yahweh of Hosts lives, before whom I stand, surely, were it not that I regard the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not look toward you, nor see you.

  • 2 Kgs 5:23-27
    5 verses
    72%

    23Naaman said, Be pleased to take two talents. He urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of clothing, and laid them on two of his servants; and they bore them before him.

    24When he came to the hill, he took them from their hand, and bestowed them in the house; and he let the men go, and they departed.

    25But he went in, and stood before his master. Elisha said to him, Whence come you, Gehazi? He said, Your servant went no where.

    26He said to him, Didn't my heart go with you, when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and olive groves and vineyards, and sheep and oxen, and men-servants and maid-servants?

    27The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave to you, and to your seed forever. He went out from his presence a leper [as white] as snow.

  • 2 Kgs 5:3-7
    5 verses
    72%

    3She said to her mistress, Would that my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! then would he recover him of his leprosy.

    4One went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and thus said the maiden who is of the land of Israel.

    5The king of Syria said, Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel. He departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand [pieces] of gold, and ten changes of clothing.

    6He brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, Now when this letter is come to you, behold, I have sent Naaman my servant to you, that you may recover him of his leprosy.

    7It happened, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he tore his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man does send to me to recover a man of his leprosy? but consider, I pray you, and see how he seeks a quarrel against me.

  • 1 Kgs 13:7-9
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    72%

    7The king said to the man of God, Come home with me, and refresh yourself, and I will give you a reward.

    8The man of God said to the king, If you will give me half your house, I will not go in with you, neither will I eat bread nor drink water in this place;

    9for so was it charged me by the word of Yahweh, saying, You shall eat no bread, nor drink water, neither return by the way that you came.

  • 1 Kgs 18:15
    71%

    15Elijah said, As Yahweh of Hosts lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him today.

  • 1 Kgs 13:16-17
    2 verses
    70%

    16He said, I may not return with you, nor go in with you; neither will I eat bread nor drink water with you in this place:

    17for it was said to me by the word of Yahweh, You shall eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that you came.

  • 1 Kgs 20:9
    70%

    9Therefore he said to the messengers of Ben Hadad, Tell my lord the king, All that you did send for to your servant at the first I will do; but this thing I may not do. The messengers departed, and brought him word again.

  • 1 Sam 28:23
    70%

    23But he refused, and said, I will not eat. But his servants, together with the woman, constrained him; and he listened to their voice. So he arose from the earth, and sat on the bed.

  • 2 Kgs 5:1
    70%

    1Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him Yahweh had given victory to Syria: he was also a mighty man of valor, [but he was] a leper.

  • 1 Kgs 20:35
    70%

    35A certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his fellow by the word of Yahweh, Please strike me. The man refused to strike him.

  • 1 Kgs 21:3
    69%

    3Naboth said to Ahab, Yahweh forbid it me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers to you.

  • 1 Kgs 18:9-10
    2 verses
    68%

    9He said, Wherein have I sinned, that you would deliver your servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me?

    10As Yahweh your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom, where my lord has not sent to seek you: and when they said, He is not here, he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they didn't find you.

  • 2 Kgs 2:6
    68%

    6Elijah said to him, "Please wait here, for Yahweh has sent me to the Jordan." He said, "As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you." They two went on.

  • 2 Kgs 4:30
    68%

    30The mother of the child said, As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you. He arose, and followed her.

  • 1 Kgs 17:1-2
    2 verses
    68%

    1Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the foreigners of Gilead, said to Ahab, As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.

    2The word of Yahweh came to him, saying,

  • 2 Kgs 2:4
    68%

    4Elijah said to him, Elisha, please wait here, for Yahweh has sent me to Jericho. He said, As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you. So they came to Jericho.

  • Luke 4:27
    68%

    27There were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the Syrian."

  • 2 Kgs 6:31
    67%

    31Then he said, God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day.

  • 2 Kgs 6:7
    67%

    7He said, Take it up to you. So he put out his hand, and took it.

  • Gen 14:23
    67%

    23that I will not take a thread nor a shoe-latchet nor anything that is yours, lest you should say, 'I have made Abram rich.'

  • Gen 33:11
    67%

    11Please take the gift that I brought to you; because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough." He urged him, and he took it.

  • 1 Kgs 13:21
    67%

    21and he cried to the man of God who came from Judah, saying, Thus says Yahweh, Because you have been disobedient to the mouth of Yahweh, and have not kept the commandment which Yahweh your God commanded you,

  • 2 Kgs 8:10
    66%

    10Elisha said to him, Go, tell him, You shall surely recover; however Yahweh has shown me that he shall surely die.

  • 2 Kgs 2:2
    66%

    2Elijah said to Elisha, Please wait here, for Yahweh has sent me as far as Bethel. Elisha said, As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you. So they went down to Bethel.

  • 2 Sam 1:9
    66%

    9He said to me, Stand, I pray you, beside me, and kill me; for anguish has taken hold of me, because my life is yet whole in me.