Bible Dictionary: Covetousness: Gehazi

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

2 Kings 5:20-24
But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master has spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought: but, as the LORD lives, I will run after him, and take somewhat of him.
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The Remedies against the Disease of Covetousness.
... Let us also fear the example of Gehazi, who for the sin of covetousness
was chastised with the punishment of perpetual leprosy. ...
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That Covetousness Brings Upon the Soul a Spiritual Leprosy.
... That covetousness brings upon the soul a spiritual leprosy. And such are seen to
be lepers in spirit and heart, after the likeness of Gehazi, who, desiring the ...
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Instances to Show that the Disease of Covetousness is Threefold.
... Instances to show that the disease of covetousness is threefold. ... For when Gehazi
wished to acquire what he had never had before, not only did he fail to obtain ...
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Tenth Commandment
... Then consider the case of Gehazi. There is another man who was drowned
in destruction and perdition by covetousness. He got more ...
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Internal Foes.
... Covetousness enticed Lot into Sodom. It caused the destruction of Achan and all
his house. ... It was the sin of Samuel's sons. It left Gehazi a leper. ...
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Matt. xxviii. 11-14.
... with this all the apostles; but with the other, Ahab, Jezebel, Gehazi, Judas, Nero ...
piercing, having nothing turbid in it, like the eye of covetousness, which is ...
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Letter Xlii. To Chilo, his Disciple.
... land? What became of the companionship of Gehazi with Elissæus, when he brought
leprosy on himself by his covetousness? What availed ...
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The Way of Life and the Way of Death.
... in Israel at Jericho, was stoned to death; [3376] and Gehazi, who stole ... and Passion,
of Deceitful Conduct, or Idle Words, Lies, Covetousness, and Hypocrisy. IV. ...
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Matt. xxvi. 6, 7
... he became such as he was, thou wilt find him to have been ruined by covetousness. ...
For Gehazi also lived with a holy man, and he too became depraved from the ...
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1 Cor. v. 1, 2
... meaning of being "present in spirit:" as Elisha was present with Gehazi, and said ...
For surely covetousness is an "old leaven;" and whenever it lights and into ...
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