2 Re 5:16

La Bibbia di Giovanni Diodati

Ma Eliseo disse: Come il Signore, al quale io servo, vive, io nol prenderò. E benchè Naaman gli facesse forza di prenderlo, pure lo ricusò.

Parallel Translations

La Nuova Diodati
Ma egli rispose: "Com vero che vive lEterno alla cui presenza io sto, non accetter nulla". Naaman insisteva con lui perch accettasse, ma egli rifiut.

Riveduta Bibbia
Ma Eliseo rispose: "Com’è vero che vive l’Eterno di cui sono servo, io non accetterò nulla". Naaman lo pressava ad accettare, ma egli rifiutò.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

As the Lord: 2 Kings 3:14, 1 Kings 17:1, 1 Kings 18:15

I will receive: 2 Kings 5:20, 2 Kings 5:26, Genesis 14:22, Genesis 14:23, 1 Kings 13:8, Daniel 5:17, Matthew 10:8, Acts 8:18-20, Acts 20:33-35, 1 Corinthians 6:12, 1 Corinthians 10:32, 1 Corinthians 10:33, 2 Corinthians 11:9, 2 Corinthians 11:10, 2 Corinthians 12:14

Reciprocal: Genesis 33:11 - urged him 1 Kings 1:29 - As the 1 Kings 8:41 - cometh out 2 Kings 5:23 - And he urged him Acts 8:20 - thou 2 Corinthians 8:4 - that 2 Corinthians 12:17 - General Philippians 4:15 - in the 3 John 1:7 - taking

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But he said, as the Lord liveth, before whom I stand,.... Whose minister and prophet he was, and by whom he swears:

I will receive none: to let him know that this cure was not to be attributed to him, but the Lord only; and that what concern he had in it was not for the sake of money, but for the glory of the God of Israel:

and he urged him to take it, but he refused it; Naaman was very pressing upon him to receive a gift from him, but he could not be prevailed upon to accept it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I will receive none - The prophets were in the habit of receiving presents from those who consulted them 1 Samuel 9:7-8; 1 Kings 14:3, but Elisha refused. It was important that Naaman should not suppose that the prophets of the true God acted from motives of self-interest, much less imagine that “the gift of God might be purchased with money” Acts 8:20.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Kings 5:16. I will receive none. — It was very common to give presents to all great and official men; and among these, prophets were always included: but as it might have appeared to the Syrians that he had taken the offered presents as a remuneration for the cure performed, he refused; for as God alone did the work, he alone should have all the glory.