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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

列王纪下 5:26

以利沙對他說:“那人下車轉身迎著你的時候,我的心不是和你同去嗎?現在不是收受銀子、衣服、橄欖園、葡萄園、羊、牛、僕人和婢女的時候。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Elisha;   Gehazi;   Joram;   Miracles;   Money;   Reproof;   Servant;   Worldliness;   Thompson Chain Reference - Agriculture-Horticulture;   Olive-Yards;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Reproof;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Gehazi;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Disease;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Judas Iscariot;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Elisha;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Vine;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Damascus;   Lie, Lying;   Naaman;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Nathanael ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Gehazi ;   Naaman ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Naaman;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;   Elisha;   Gehazi;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Eli'sha;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Prophets;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Israel;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Elisha;   Gehazi;   Lie;   Naaman;   Prophecy;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
以 利 沙 对 他 说 : 那 人 下 车 转 回 迎 你 的 时 候 , 我 的 心 岂 没 有 去 呢 ? 这 岂 是 受 银 子 、 衣 裳 、 买 橄 榄 园 、 葡 萄 园 、 牛 羊 、 仆 婢 的 时 候 呢 ?

Contextual Overview

20 Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, thought, "My master has not accepted what Naaman the Aramean brought. As surely as the Lord lives, I'll run after him and get something from him." 21 So Gehazi went after Naaman. When Naaman saw someone running after him, he got off the chariot to meet Gehazi. He asked, "Is everything all right?" 22 Gehazi said, "Everything is all right. My master has sent me. He said, ‘Two young men from the groups of prophets in the mountains of Ephraim just came to me. Please give them seventy-five pounds of silver and two changes of clothes.'" 23 Naaman said, "Please take one hundred fifty pounds," and he urged Gehazi to take it. He tied one hundred fifty pounds of silver in two bags with two changes of clothes. Then he gave them to two of his servants to carry for Gehazi. 24 When they came to the hill, Gehazi took these things from Naaman's servants and put them in the house. Then he let Naaman's servants go, and they left. 25 When he came in and stood before his master, Elisha said to him, "Where have you been, Gehazi?" "I didn't go anywhere," he answered. 26 But Elisha said to him, "My spirit was with you. I knew when the man turned from his chariot to meet you. This isn't a time to take money, clothes, olives, grapes, sheep, oxen, male servants, or female servants. 27 So Naaman's skin disease will come on you and your children forever." When Gehazi left Elisha, he had the disease and was as white as snow.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

he said: Psalms 63:11, Proverbs 12:19, Proverbs 12:22, Acts 5:9

Went: 2 Kings 6:12, 1 Corinthians 5:3, Colossians 2:5

Is it a time: 2 Kings 5:16, Genesis 14:23, Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, Matthew 10:8, Acts 20:33, Acts 20:35, 1 Corinthians 9:11, 1 Corinthians 9:12, 2 Corinthians 11:8-12, 2 Thessalonians 3:8, 2 Thessalonians 3:9

Reciprocal: Joshua 7:11 - dissembled 1 Kings 13:8 - go 1 Kings 21:17 - General 2 Kings 6:32 - ere the messenger 2 Kings 7:9 - some mischief will come upon us 2 Kings 20:14 - What said Psalms 101:7 - He that worketh Proverbs 10:22 - he Ecclesiastes 3:6 - time to get Jeremiah 35:9 - General Jeremiah 45:5 - seekest Daniel 5:17 - Let Matthew 24:48 - say Mark 14:11 - and promised John 4:19 - I perceive Acts 8:20 - Thy Acts 8:31 - And he 1 Thessalonians 2:17 - in presence

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he said unto him, went not mine heart with thee?.... Did my heart or knowledge go from me, that what thou hast done should be hid from me? so Ben Gersom and others; or my heart did not go with thee, it was contrary to my mind and will what thou didst; so Abendana; or rather, as the Targum, by a spirit of prophecy it was shown unto me, c. I knew full well what thou wentest for, and hast done and so Maimonides y; was not I employed in my thoughts? or, did I not think that so it was as thou hast done? I did:

when the man turned again from chariot to meet thee? meaning Naaman the Syrian:

is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments: as Gehazi had now done:

and oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep and oxen, and menservants, and maidservants? that is, to purchase those with the two talents of silver he had received, as he thought in his heart, or intended to do, as the Targum; or had given orders to purchase such for him to the persons to whom he had committed the care of them in the tower; this was not a proper time, when the honour of the prophet, and the credit of religion, and the good of this man, as a new proselyte, were in danger thereby.

y Moreh Nevochim, par. 1. c. 39.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Went not mine heart with thee? - i. e. “Was I not with thee in spirit - did I not see the whole transaction, as if I had been present at it?” He uses the verb “went,” because Gehazi has just denied his “going.”

Is it a time ... - i. e. “Was this a proper occasion to indulge greed, when a Gentile was to be favorably impressed, and made to feel that the faith of the Israelites was the only true religion? Was it not, on the contrary, an occasion for the exhibition of the greatest unselfishness, that so a pagan might be won to the truth?”

And oliveyards and vineyards ... - Gehazi’s thoughts had probably run on to the disposition which he would make of his wealth, and the prophet here follows them, enumerating his servant’s intended purchases.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Kings 5:26. Went not mine heart with thee] The Chaldee gives this a good turn: By the prophetic spirit it was shown unto me, when the man returned from his chariot to meet thee.

Is it a time to receive money — He gave him farther proof of this all-discerning prophetic spirit in telling him what he designed to do with the money; he intended to set up a splendid establishment, to have men-servants and maid-servants, to have oliveyards and vineyards, and sheep and oxen, This, as the Chaldee says, he had thought in his heart to do.


 
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