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


In Context

13 His servants came near, and spoke to him, and said, |My father, if the prophet had asked you do some great thing, wouldn't you have done it? How much rather then, when he says to you, 'Wash, and be clean?'|

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

15 He returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him; and he said, |See now, I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel. Now therefore, please take a gift from your servant.|

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

17 Naaman said, |If not, then, please let there 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 Yahweh.

18 In this thing may Yahweh pardon your servan: 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 myself in the house of Rimmon, may Yahweh 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 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.