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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