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2 Kings 5:16 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 16. 16But he said, As the LORD liveth, before whom I stand, I will receive none. And he urged him to take it; but he refused.
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Role in This Section
This verse advances the thought unit through its next reported action, speech, or consequence: “But he said, As the LORD liveth, before whom I stand, I will receive none. And he urged….” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Naaman confesses, Elisha refuses payment, and a compromise remains.”
Read It With
- 2 Kings 5:15–19
Read 2 Kings 5:16 with 5:15–19. The selected wording supplies one step in the thought unit through its next reported action, speech, or consequence; the surrounding verses supply the causes, responses, and outcome summarized here: Naaman confesses Israel's God, offers a gift that Elisha refuses, requests earth, and asks pardon for supporting his master in Rimmon's temple before leaving in peace.
Why It Needs Context
2 Kings 5:16 depends on 5:15–19; isolating “But he said, As the LORD liveth, before whom I stand, I will receive none. And he urged…” would detach a supporting action, quotation, name, number, object, or transition from “Naaman confesses, Elisha refuses payment, and a compromise remains.”
Read 2 Kings 5:15–19 together
Why these verses belong together: 2 Kings 5:15–19 forms one scene or regnal notice: Naaman confesses Israel's God, offers a gift that Elisha refuses, requests earth, and asks pardon for supporting his master in Rimmon's temple before leaving in peace.
Verse 15. 15 And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him: and he said, Behold, now I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel: now therefore, I pray thee, take a blessing of thy servant.
Verse 16. 16 But he said, As the LORD liveth, before whom I stand, I will receive none. And he urged him to take it; but he refused.
Verse 17. 17 And Naaman said, Shall there not then, I pray thee, be given to thy servant two mules’ burden of earth? for thy servant will henceforth offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice unto other gods, but unto the LORD.
Verse 18. 18 In this thing the LORD pardon thy servant, that when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon: when I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon thy servant in this thing.
Verse 19. 19 And he said unto him, Go in peace. So he departed from him a little way.
Continue in Context
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Read 2 Kings 5:15–19 — Naaman confesses, Elisha refuses payment, and a compromise remainsSources used for this context pointer
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Exact location: 2 Kings 5:15–19, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
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