Conclusion of A Girl Helps a Mighty Man

But one of his servants tells him:  'Sir, if E-li'sha told you to do something hard, you would do it.  Now why can't you just wash yourself as he said?' Na'a-man  listens to his servants and goes and dips himself in the Jordan River seven times.  When he does, his flesh becomes firm and  healthy!

Na'a-man is very happy.  He returns to E-li'sha and tells him:  'Now I know for sure that the God in Israel is the only true God in all the earth. So, please, take this gift from me.'  But E-li'sha answers:  'No, I will not take it.'   E-li'sha knows that it would be wrong for him to take the gift, because it was Jehovah who had healed Na'a-man.  But E-li'sha's servant want the gift for himself.

So this is what Ge-ha'zi does.  After Na'a-man leaves, Ge-ha'zi runs to catch up with him. E-li'sha sent me to tell you  that he would like some of your gift for friends who come to visit,' Ge-ha'zi says.  This, of course, is a lie.  But Na'a-man  doesn't know that it is a lie, so he gives Ge'ha'zi some of the things.

When Ge-ha'zi returns home, E-li'sha knows what he has done. Jehovah has told him.  So he says:  'Because you did this bad thing, Na'a-man's leprosy will come upon you. '  And it does it right away!

What can we learn from all of this?  First, that we should be like this little girl and talk about Jehovah.  It can do  much good. Secondly, we should not be proud as Na'a-man was at first, but we should obey God's servants. And thirdly, we should not  lie as Ge-ha'zi did.  Can't we learn a lot from reading the Bible?

 2 Kings 5:1-27. 

Next time: Jonah and the Big Fish

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