2 Kings 5:19

5:19 Elisha ¹  said to him, “Go in peace.”

When he had gone a short distance, ² 

2 Kings 4:5

4:5 So she left him and closed the door behind her and her sons. As they were bringing the containers to her, she was pouring the olive oil.

2 Kings 5:20

5:20 Gehazi, the prophet Elisha’s servant, thought, ³  “Look, my master did not accept what this Syrian Naaman offered him. ⁴  As certainly as the Lord lives, I will run after him and accept something from him.”

[5:19]  ¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[5:19]  ² tn Heb “and he went from him a distance of land.” The precise meaning of כִּבְרַה (kivrah) “distance,” is uncertain. See BDB 460 s.v. כִּבְרַה, and HALOT 459-60 s.v. II *כְּבָרַה, and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 65.

[5:20]  ³ tn Heb “said” (i.e., to himself).

[5:20]  ⁴ tn Heb “Look, my master spared this Syrian Naaman by not taking from his hand what he brought.”