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


In Context

13 His servants came to him, and said to him: Father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, surely thou shouldst have done it: how much rather what he now hath said to thee: Wash, and thou shalt he clean?

14 Then he went down, and washed in the Jordan seven times: according to the word of the man of God, and his flesh was restored, like the flesh of a little child, and he was made clean.

15 And returning to the man of God with all his train, he came, and stood before him, and said: In truth, I know there is no other God in all the earth, but only in Israel: I beseech thee therefore take a blessing of thy servant.

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

17 And Naaman said: As thou wilt: but I beseech thee, grant to me thy servant, to take from hence two mules' burden of earth: for thy servant will not henceforth offer holocaust, or victim, to other gods, but to the Lord.

18 But there is only this, for which thou shalt entreat the Lord for thy servant, when my master goeth into the temple of Remmon, to worship: and he leaneth upon my hand, if I bow down in the temple of Remmon, when he boweth down in the same place, that the Lord pardon me thy servant for 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 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.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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