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2KI-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.
2KI-5:2 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.
2KI-5:3 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.
2KI-5:4 And [one] went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and
thus said the maid that [is] of the land of Israel.
2KI-5:5 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.
2KI-5:6 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.
2KI-5:7 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.
2KI-5:8 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.
2KI-5:9 So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariot, and
stood at the door of the house of Elisha.
2KI-5:10 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.
2KI-5:11 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.
2KI-5:12 [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.
2KI-5:13 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?
2KI-5:14 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.
2KI-5:15 And he returned to the man of God, he and all his
company, and came, and stood before him: and he said, Behold,
now I know that [there is] no God in all the earth, but in
Israel: now therefore, I pray thee, take a blessing of thy
servant.
2KI-5:16 But he said, [As] the LORD liveth, before whom I stand,
I will receive none. And he urged him to take [it]; but he
refused.
2KI-5:17 And Naaman said, Shall there not then, I pray thee, be
given to thy servant two mules' burden of earth? for thy servant
will henceforth offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice unto
other gods, but unto the LORD.
2KI-5:18 In this thing the LORD pardon thy servant, [that] when
my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and
he leaneth on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon:
when I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon
thy servant in this thing.
2KI-5:19 And he said unto him, Go in peace. So he departed from
him a little way.
2KI-5:20 But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said,
Behold, my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not
receiving at his hands that which he brought: but, [as] the LORD
liveth, I will run after him, and take somewhat of him.
2KI-5:21 So Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman saw
[him] running after him, he lighted down from the chariot to
meet him, and said, [Is] all well?
2KI-5:22 And he said, All [is] well. My master hath sent me,
saying, Behold, even now there be come to me from mount Ephraim
two young men of the sons of the prophets: give them, I pray
thee, a talent of silver, and two changes of garments.
2KI-5:23 And Naaman said, Be content, take two talents. And he
urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two
changes of garments, and laid [them] upon two of his servants;
and they bare [them] before him.
2KI-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.
2KI-5:25 But he went in, and stood before his master. And Elisha
said unto him, Whence [comest thou], Gehazi? And he said, Thy
servant went no whither.
2KI-5:26 And he said unto him, Went not mine heart [with thee],
when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? [Is it]
a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and oliveyards,
and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and
maidservants?
2KI-5:27 The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee,
and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a
leper [as white] as snow.
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