{"id":6748,"date":"2011-03-08T09:25:36","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T14:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/?p=6748"},"modified":"2011-03-08T09:25:48","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T14:25:48","slug":"gahazi-curse-accepting-gifts-lords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2011\/03\/08\/gahazi-curse-accepting-gifts-lords\/","title":{"rendered":"Gahazi &#8211; Curse of accepting gifts for the Lord&#8217;s doing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2 Kings 5<\/p>\n<p>And he said, ?Behold, I know that there is no God in all the earth but in Israel; so accept now a present from your servant.? But he said, ?As the Lord lives, before whom I stand, I will receive none.? And he urged him to take it, but he refused.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThen Naaman said, ?If not, please let there be given to your servant two mules&#8217; load of earth, for from now on your servant will not offer burnt offering or sacrifice to any god but the Lord. In this matter may the Lord pardon your servant: when my master goes into the house of Rimmon to worship there, leaning on my arm, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon, when I bow myself in the house of Rimmon, the Lord pardon your servant in this matter.? He said to him, ?Go in peace.?<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nBut he said to him, ?Did not my heart go when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Was it a time to accept money and garments, olive orchards and vineyards, sheep and oxen, male servants and female servants? Therefore the leprosy of Naaman shall cling to you and to your descendants forever.? So he went out from his presence a leper, like snow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 Kings 5 And he said, ?Behold, I know that there is no God in all the earth but in Israel; so accept now a present from your servant.? But he said, ?As the Lord lives, before whom I stand, I will receive none.? And he urged him to take it, but he refused. &#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}