²⁹ Then he said to Gehazi, “^(A)Gird up your loins and ^(B)take my staff in your hand, and go your way; if you meet any man, do not ^(C)salute him, and if anyone salutes you, do not answer him; and ^(D)lay my staff on the lad’s face.” ³⁰ The mother of the lad said, “^(E)As the Lord lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” And he arose and followed her. ³¹ Then Gehazi passed on before them and laid the staff on the lad’s face, but there was no sound or ^[a]response. So he returned to meet him and told ^[b]him, “The lad ^(F)has not awakened.”

²⁰ But ^(A)Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, ^[a]thought, “Behold, my master has spared this Naaman the Aramean, ^[b]by not receiving from his hands what he brought. ^(B)As the Lord lives, I will run after him and take something from him.” ²¹ So Gehazi pursued Naaman. When Naaman saw one running after him, he came down from the chariot to meet him and said, “Is all well?” ²² He said, “^(C)All is well. My master has sent me, saying, ‘Behold, just now two young men of the sons of the prophets have come to me from ^(D)the hill country of Ephraim. Please give them a talent of silver and ^(E)two changes of clothes.’” ²³ Naaman said, “^(F)Be pleased to take two talents.” And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags with two changes of clothes and gave them to two of his servants; and they carried them before him. ²⁴ When he came to the ^[c]hill, he took them from their hand and ^(G)deposited them in the house, and he sent the men away, and they departed. ²⁵ But he went in and stood before his master. And Elisha said to him, “Where have you been, Gehazi?” And he said, “^(H)Your servant went nowhere.”

²⁶ Then he said to him, “Did not my heart go with you, when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? ^(I)Is it a time to receive money and to receive clothes and olive groves and vineyards and sheep and oxen and male and female servants? ²⁷ Therefore, the leprosy of Naaman shall cling to you and to your ^[d]descendants forever.” So he went out from his presence ^(J)a leper as white as snow.

⁴ Now the king was talking with ^(A)Gehazi, the servant of the man of God, saying, “Please relate to me all the great things that Elisha has done.” ⁵ As he was relating to the king ^(B)how he had restored to life the one who was dead, behold, the woman whose son he had restored to life ^[a]appealed to the king for her house and for her field. And Gehazi said, “My lord, O king, this is the woman and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.”