16But he said, As the LORD lives, before whom I stand, I will receive none. And he urged him to take it; but he refused.


In Context

13 And his servants came near, and spoke to him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid you do some great thing, would you not have done it? how much rather then, when he said to you, Wash, and be clean?

14 Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like to the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.

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 you, take a blessing of your servant.

16 But he said, As the LORD lives, before whom I stand, I will receive none. And he urged him to take it; but he refused.

17 And Naaman said, Shall there not then, I pray you, be given to your servant two mules' burden of earth? for your servant will from now on offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice to other gods, but to the LORD.

18 In this thing the LORD pardon your servant, that when my master goes into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leans 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 your servant in this thing.

2 Kings 5:16 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

5:16The prophet answered, "As surely as the Lord lives, whom I serve, I will not accept a thing." And even though Naaman urged him, he refused.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:16But he said, [As] the LORD liveth, before whom I stand, I will receive none. And he urged him to take [it;] but he refused.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

5:16But he answered: As the Lord liveth, before whom I stand, I will receive none. And when he pressed him, he still refused.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

5:16But he said, As Jehovah liveth, before whom I stand, I will receive none. And he urged him to take it; but he refused.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:16But he said, As Jehovah liveth, before whom I stand, I will receive none! And he urged him to take it; but he refused.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

5:16But he said, As the LORD liveth, before whom I stand, I will receive none. And he urged him to take it; but he refused.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:16But he said, As the LORD liveth, before whom I stand, I will receive none. And he urged him to take it; but he refused.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:16But he said, |As Yahweh lives, before whom I stand, I will receive none.| He urged him to take it; but he refused.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

5:16And he saith, 'Jehovah liveth, before whom I have stood — if I take it;' and he presseth on him to take, and he refuseth.