Perhaps now we can begin to understand Gehazi’s offense. Of course, there were other—one is tempted to say, lesser—offenses. It’s ironic to see him break the third commandment in verse 20. He’s apparently irked that Elisha took no loot from ‘this Aramaean’, surely an ethnic dig. So Gehazi swears by Yahweh’s name (‘By the life of Yahweh’) that he would certainly relieve Naaman of some of his assets. His barefaced lie (v. 22) tramples on the ninth commandment, and his covetousness (tenth commandment)