2 Kings 5:24
And when he came to the tower, he took them from their hand, and bestowed them in the house: and he let the men go, and they departed. And when he came to the tower, he took them from their hand, and bestowed them in the house: and he let the men go, and they departed.
The verse belongs to the meeting at Elisha's house, where Elisha stands in the doorway giving instruction while Naaman stands before him with respectful entreaty. It belongs to the story of Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, a great man with his master and honorable and mighty in valor but a leper. After Benhadad king of Syria defeated Israel and Ahab died, Syria kept up constant border warfare with Israel, and in a raid carried away a little Israelite maid who waited on Naaman's wife.
Far from home as a slave, she was one of God's witnesses fulfilling the purpose for which God chose Israel as His people. From sympathy for her master and remembrance of healings wrought through Elisha and knowledge that the power of Heaven was with him and belief that by this power Naaman could be healed, she told her mistress that her lord should go to the prophet in Samaria for he would recover him of his leprosy. At the tower Gehazi takes the silver and garments, the gifts and treasure deceitfully obtained from Naaman through his servants, dismisses and sends the men away after they carried them back, and hides them in the house.
He acts from covetousness and avarice, coveting the gifts Elisha had refused and seeking and keeping them for himself. He utters falsehood to obtain them, and his secrecy in taking and hiding them is part of his deception and his attempt to conceal it. The act is not hidden from God, who reveals to Elisha what Gehazi said and every detail of the encounter.
His secret deception and avarice places a stumbling block before Naaman, who is favorably disposed toward serving the living God, and Gehazi has no excuse for his conduct. For that lie and wrongdoing Naaman's leprosy comes upon Gehazi, he is struck with leprosy that remains until his death, and he is shunned by others. This shows that falsehood and deception of every kind, including prevarication and exaggeration, is sin against the God of sincerity and truth, appears hateful in His sight, and brings severe punishment.