2 Kings 5
1 Now
Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a
great man with his master, and honourable, because by him
the LORD had
given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in
valour, but he was a leper.
2 And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and
had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a
little maid; and she waited on Naaman's wife.
3 And she said unto her mistress, Would God my
lord were with the prophet that is in
Samaria! for he would recover him of his leprosy.
4 And one went in, and told his lord,
saying, Thus and thus said the maid that is of the
land of Israel.
5 And the king of Syria said, Go to, go, and I
will send a letter unto the king of Israel. And he
departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and
six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of
raiment.
6 And he brought the letter to the king of Israel,
saying, Now when this letter is come unto thee, behold, I
have therewith sent Naaman my servant to thee,
that thou mayest recover him of his leprosy.
7 And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had
read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am
I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send
unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? wherefore
consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel
against me.
8 ¶ And it was so, when Elisha the man of
God had heard that the king of Israel had rent his
clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, Wherefore hast
thou rent thy clothes? let him come now to me, and he
shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.
9 So Naaman came with his horses and with his
chariot, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha.
10 And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go
and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come
again to thee, and thou shalt be clean.
11 But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said,
Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and
stand, and call on the name of the LORD his God, and strike his hand over the place,
and recover the leper.
12 Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of
Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not
wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in
a rage.
13 And his servants came near, and spake unto him,
and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do
some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it?
how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be
clean?
14 Then went he down, and dipped himself seven
times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of
God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a
little child, and he was clean.
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