i. “Gehazi is not the last who has got money in an unlawful way, and has got God’s curse with it.” (Clarke) ii. “We see here a pagan who by an act of faith is cured of leprosy and an Israelite who by an act of dishonor is cursed with it.” (Dilday) ...
Israel, The place of life and blessing had become a place of death and of the curse. She (Israel) is a widow, a debtor in danger once again of selling herself into slavery, as in the days of the Judges. The miracles and stories in this chapter are handpicked and were meant to illu...
He said to Gehazi, “Tie up your garment and take my staff in your hand and go. If you meet anyone, do not greet him, and if anyone greets you, do not reply. And lay my staff on the face of the child.”Berean Standard BibleSo Elisha said to Gehazi, “Tie up your garment, ...
was done publicly before the whole synagogue, all the heads and elders of the church being gathered together; and then candles were lighted, and as soon as the form of the curse was finished, they were put out, as a sign that the excommunicated person was unworthy of the heavenly light ...
Then he turned around, looked at them, and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Suddenly two female bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys.2 Kings 5:20-27Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “Look, my master has spared ...
That might have been the end of Jehovah. But then, like in a bad movie where someone awakens ancient evil by accident, someone finds a book about Jehovah, and the curse is renewed. 22:8And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in th...
Elisha Places a Curse on Gehazi After Naaman had gone only a short distance,20Gehazi said to himself, “Elisha let that Syrian off too easy. He should have taken Naaman's gift. I swear by the livingLordthat I will talk to Naaman myself and get something from him.”21So he hurried af...
He says, "The tongue is a member that defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell." He says that our tongue "is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, ...
For this reason he chose Gerizim from which to hurl his curse upon Shechem and it inhabitants. (103) The successor to Abimelech equalled, if he did not surpass, him in wickedness. Jair erected an altar unto Baal, and on penalty of death he forced the people to prostrate themselves ...
of the Lord; and he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse."There is absolutely no doubt that Elijah must return before the coming of Jesus. He has a specific work to ...