He began building on the second day of the second month of the fourth year of his reign. ¹ 

Why ¹  do I put myself in peril, ²  and take my life in my hands?

I grabbed the two tablets, threw them down, ¹  and shattered them before your very eyes.

In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first of the month, ¹  the word of the Lord came to me:

Naaman said, “Please accept two talents of silver. ¹  He insisted, and tied up two talents of silver in two bags, along with two suits of clothes. He gave them to two of his servants and they carried them for Gehazi. ² 

May the Lord punish him for the blood he shed; ¹  behind my father David’s back he struck down and murdered with the sword two men who were more innocent and morally upright than he ²  – Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army.