2Ki 5:20-27, Job 20:19-28, Jer 22:13-19, Zec 5:1-4, Act 1:17-25 | ESV | STEP | Gehazi , the servant of Elisha the man of God , said , See , my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian , in not accepting from his hand what he brought . As the Lord lives , I will run after him and get something from him.

20 ^aGehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “See, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not accepting from his hand what he brought. ^bAs the Lord lives, I will run after him and get something from him.” 21 So Gehazi followed Naaman. And when Naaman saw someone running after him, he got down from the chariot to meet him and said, ^c“Is all well?” 22 And he said, “All is well. My master has sent me to say, ‘There have just now come to me from ^dthe hill country of Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets. Please give them a talent of silver and ^etwo changes of clothing.’” 23 And Naaman said, ^f“Be pleased to accept two talents.” And he urged him and tied up two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of clothing, and laid them on two of his servants. And they carried them before Gehazi. 24 And when he came to the hill, he took them from their hand and put them in the house, and he sent the men away, and they departed. 25 He went in and stood before his master, and Elisha said to him, “Where have you been, Gehazi?” And he said, “Your servant went nowhere.” 26 But 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? 27 Therefore the leprosy of Naaman shall cling to you and to your descendants forever.” So he went out from his presence ^ga leper, like snow.

Job 20:19-28

19 For he has crushed and abandoned the poor;
he has seized a house that he did not build.
20 “Because he ^hknew no ⁱcontentment in his belly,
^jhe will not let anything in which he delights escape him.
21 There was nothing left after he had eaten;
therefore his prosperity will not endure.
22 In the fullness of his sufficiency he will be in distress;
the hand of everyone in misery will come against him.
23 To fill his belly to the full,
God ^{▼▼Hebrew he} will send his burning anger against him
and rain it upon him ^linto his body.
24 ^mHe will flee from an iron weapon;
ⁿa bronze arrow will strike ^ohim through.
25 It ^pis drawn forth and comes out of his body;
^qthe glittering point comes out of his ^rgallbladder;
^sterrors come upon him.
26 Utter darkness is laid up for his treasures;
^ta fire not fanned will devour him;
what is left in his tent will be consumed.
27 ^uThe heavens will reveal his iniquity,
and the earth will rise up against him.
28 The possessions of his house will be carried away,
dragged off in the day of God’s ^{▼▼Hebrew his} wrath.

Jeremiah 22:13-19

13 ^w“Woe to him who builds his house by ^xunrighteousness,
and his upper rooms by injustice,
^ywho makes his neighbor serve him for nothing
and does not give him his wages,
14 who says, ‘I will build myself a great house
with spacious upper rooms,’
who cuts out windows for it,
paneling it with cedar
and ^zpainting it with vermilion.
15 Do you think you are a king
because you compete in cedar?
Did not your father eat and drink
and ^aado justice and righteousness?
^abThen it was well with him.
16 ^acHe judged the cause of the poor and needy;
^adthen it was well.
Is not this ^aeto know me?
declares the Lord.
17 But you have eyes and heart
only for your dishonest gain,
^affor shedding innocent blood,
and for practicing oppression and violence.”
18 Therefore thus says the Lord concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:

^ag“They shall not lament for him, saying,
^ah‘Ah, my brother!’ or ‘Ah, sister!’
They shall not lament for him, saying,
^ai‘Ah, lord!’ or ‘Ah, his majesty!’
19 With the burial of a donkey ^ajhe shall be buried,
dragged and dumped beyond the gates of Jerusalem.”

Zechariah 5:1-4

A Vision of a Flying Scroll

1 Again I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, a flying ^akscroll! 2 And he said to me, “What do you see?” I answered, “I see a flying ^alscroll. Its length is twenty cubits, and its width ten cubits.” ^{▼▼A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters} 3 Then he said to me, “This is ^anthe curse that goes out over the face of the whole land. For everyone who ^aosteals shall be cleaned out according to what is on one side, and everyone who ^apswears falsely ^{▼▼Hebrew lacks falsely (supplied from verse 4)} shall be cleaned out according to what is on the other side. 4 I will send it out, declares the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter the house of the thief, and the house of ^arhim who swears falsely by my name. And ^asit shall remain in his house and ^atconsume it, both timber and stones.”

Acts 1:17-25

17 For ^auhe was numbered among us and was allotted his share in ^avthis ministry.” 18 (Now this man ^awacquired a field with ^axthe reward of his wickedness, and falling headlong ^{▼▼Or swelling up} he burst open in the middle and all his bowels gushed out. 19 And it became known to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the field was called ^azin their own language Akeldama, that is, Field of Blood.) 20 “For it is written in the Book of Psalms,

^ba“‘May his camp become desolate,
and let there be no one to dwell in it’;
and

^bb“‘Let another take his office.’
21 So one of the men who have accompanied us during ^bcall the time that the Lord Jesus ^bdwent in and out among us, 22 ^bebeginning from the baptism of John until the day when ^bfhe was taken up from us—one of these men must become with us ^bga witness to his resurrection.” 23 And they put forward two, Joseph called ^bhBarsabbas, who was also called ^biJustus, and ^bjMatthias. 24 And ^bkthey prayed and said, “You, Lord, ^blwho know the hearts of all, show which one of these two you have chosen 25 to take the place in ^bmthis ministry and ^bnapostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place.”