²⁹ Then he said to Gehazi, “^[a](A)Get ready and ^(B)take my staff in your hand, and go; if you meet anyone, do not ^[b](C)greet him, and if anyone ^[c]greets you, do not reply to him. And ^(D)lay my staff on the boy’s face.” ³⁰ The mother of the boy said, “^(E)As surely as the Lord lives and you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So he got up and followed her. ³¹ Then Gehazi went on ahead of them and laid the staff on the boy’s face, but there was no sound or ^[d]response. So he returned to meet him and informed him, saying, “The boy ^(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 accepting from his hand 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 someone running after him, he came down from the chariot to meet him and said, “Is everything well?” ²² And he said, “^(C)Everything 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 sure to take two talents.” And he urged him, and tied up 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 my heart not go with you, when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? ^(I)Is it a time to accept money and to accept clothes, olive groves, vineyards, sheep, oxen, and male and female slaves? ²⁷ Therefore, the leprosy of Naaman shall cling to you and to your ^[d]descendants forever.” So he went out from his presence ^(J)afflicted with leprosy, as white as snow.

⁴ Now the king was speaking with ^(A)Gehazi, the servant of the man of God, saying, “Please report to me all the great things that Elisha has done.” ⁵ And as he was reporting 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 the king, this is the woman and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.”