Person
Gehazi
Elisha's servant who ran after Naaman's silver with a lie and carried Naaman's leprosy away with it.
2-kings
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- Divided kingdom
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Gehazi in Scripture
18 verses use this name, in 1 book. Open a book to read its mentions here. Text: Berean Standard Bible. Names repeat in Scripture — some of these verses may speak of another person called Gehazi.
First named2 Kings 4:12And he said to Gehazi his servant, “Call the Shunammite woman.” And when he had called her, she stood before him,Last named2 Kings 8:5And Gehazi was telling the king how Elisha had brought the dead back to life. Just then the woman whose son Elisha had revived came to appeal to the king for her house and her land. So Gehazi said, “My lord the king, this is the woman, and this is the son Elisha restored to life.”
Old Testament1 book · 18 mentions
2 Kings18 mentions
- 2 Kings 4:12And he said to Gehazi his servant, “Call the Shunammite woman.” And when he had called her, she stood before him,
- 2 Kings 4:13and Elisha said to Gehazi, “Now tell her, ‘Look, you have gone to all this trouble for us. What can we do for you? Can we speak on your behalf to the king or the commander of the army?’” “I have a home among my own people,” she replied.
- 2 Kings 4:14So he asked, “Then what should be done for her?” “Well, she has no son,” Gehazi replied, “and her husband is old.”
- 2 Kings 4:15“Call her,” said Elisha. So Gehazi called her, and she stood in the doorway.
- 2 Kings 4:25So she set out and went to the man of God at Mount Carmel. When the man of God saw her at a distance, he said to his servant Gehazi, “Look, there is the Shunammite woman.
13 further mentions in 2 Kings — read them in the book.
Named alongside
Other people MannaFest has a page for whose name the text uses in 2 Kings 4, 2 Kings 5 and 2 Kings 8. Each card shows the verse it came from. Scripture reuses names freely, so a page behind a name here may belong to another person who shares it.
ElishaElijah's successor with the firstborn's double portion; the prophet of the healed spring, the widow's oil, the Shunammi…2 Kings 4:1Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant, my husband, is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD. And now his creditor is coming to take my two children as his slaves!”
NaamanCaptain of the host of Aram, a great man and a leper, healed in the Jordan's seventh dip at Elisha's word — the Gentile…2 Kings 5:1Now Naaman, the commander of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man in his master’s sight and highly regarded, for through him the LORD had given victory to Aram. And he was a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.
HazaelThe Aramean officer over whose face Elisha wept, foreseeing the cruelty of his coming reign; king of Aram and scourge o…2 Kings 8:8So the king said to Hazael, “Take a gift in your hand, go to meet the man of God, and inquire of the LORD through him, ‘Will I recover from this illness?’”
JudahJacob's fourth son who pledges himself for Benjamin; the tribe that carries the scepter to Shiloh (49:10) and the line…2 Kings 8:16In the fifth year of the reign of Joram son of Ahab over Israel, Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat succeeded his father as king of Judah.
AhabSeventh king of the northern kingdom, son of Omri, who "did evil above all that were before him"; Elijah's chief antago…2 Kings 8:16In the fifth year of the reign of Joram son of Ahab over Israel, Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat succeeded his father as king of Judah.
DavidSecond king of united Israel, shepherd-turned-monarch, ancestor of the Messiah, and traditional author of many Psalms.2 Kings 8:19Yet for the sake of His servant David, the LORD was unwilling to destroy Judah, since He had promised to maintain a lamp for David and his descendants forever.
AthaliahAhab's daughter and Judah's only reigning queen, who destroyed the royal seed — save the hidden Joash — and fell when t…2 Kings 8:26Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year. His mother’s name was Athaliah, the granddaughter of Omri king of Israel.
OmriArmy commander made king of Israel who founded Samaria as the northern capital; politically formidable, spiritually jud…2 Kings 8:26Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year. His mother’s name was Athaliah, the granddaughter of Omri king of Israel.
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