Gehazi

Gehazi served as Elisha's personal attendant through a series of remarkable miracles — the raising of the Shunammite woman's son, the neutralizing of poisoned stew, the feeding of a hundred men. He was present for and participant in each. But the story most attached to him is the aftermath of Naaman's healing. Elisha had refused any payment from the Syrian commander who had been cleansed of leprosy, saying, "As the LORD lives, I will receive nothing." Gehazi watched the payment depart and decided to take it for himself.

He ran after Naaman's chariot, invented a story about two prophets' sons who needed silver and clothing, and received exactly that from the grateful Naaman. When he returned, he hid the goods and stood before Elisha as if nothing had happened. Elisha said: "Did not my heart go with you when the man turned from his chariot to meet you?" He declared that Naaman's leprosy would cling to Gehazi and his offspring forever. Gehazi went from Elisha's presence leprous, "like snow." He is a figure of the person who stands closest to divine power and yet is destroyed by small, concealed greed.