2 Kings 5:1–14

^*Now Naaman, ^acaptain 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. ²And the Syrians had gone out by ^bcompanies, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she ^†waited on Naaman’s wife. ³And 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. ⁴And one went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and thus said the maid that is of the land of Israel. ⁵And the king of Syria said, Go to, go, and I will send a letter unto the king of Israel. And he departed, and ^ctook ^†with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten ^dchanges of raiment. ⁶And he brought the letter to ^ethe 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. ⁷And it came to pass, when ^ethe king of Israel had read the letter, that ^fhe rent his clothes, and said, ^gAm I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? wherefore ^hconsider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me. ⁸And it was so, when Elisha the man of God had heard that ^ethe 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. ⁹So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariot, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha. ¹⁰And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and ⁱwash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean. ¹¹But 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. ¹²Are not ^||Abana and Pharpar, rivers of ^kDamascus, 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. ¹³And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, ^lMy 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? ¹⁴Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and ^mhis flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and ⁿhe was clean.