1 ¶ Now Naaman, the commander of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man in his master’s sight, and highly honored, because by him the LORD had given victory to Syria: he was also a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.

2 Now the Syrians had gone out on raids, and had carried a young girl captive out of the land of Israel; and she waited on Naaman’s wife.

3 And she said to her mistress, I wish that my lord was with the prophet who is in Samaria! for he would heal him of his leprosy.

4 And Naaman went in, and told his king, saying, The girl who is from the land of Israel said such and such.

5 And the king of Syria said, Go, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel. And he left, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of clothing.

6 And he took the letter to the king of Israel, which said, When this letter reaches you, know that I have sent my servant Naaman to you, so that you may cure him of his leprosy.

7 And when the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man tells me to cure a man of his leprosy? just consider, and see how he is seeking a quarrel with me.

8 And when Elisha the man of God had heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, he sent to the king, saying, Why have you torn your clothes? let him come to me, and he will know that there is a prophet in Israel.

9 ¶ So Naaman came with his horses and his chariots, and stood at the door of Elisha’s house.

10 And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh will be restored, and you will be clean.

11 But Naaman was angry, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He would 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 cure the leprosy.

12 Are not the 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 But his servants approached, and said to him, My father, if the prophet had asked you do some great thing, would you not have done it? how much more then, when he says to you, Wash, and be clean?

14 Then he went down, and dipped himself in the Jordan seven times, just as the man of God told him: and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.

15 ¶ And he and all his company returned to the man of God, and stood before him: and said, Behold, now I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel: therefore, I urge you to accept a gift from your servant.

16 But Elisha said, As the LORD lives, before whom I stand, I will accept nothing. And he urged him to take it; but he refused.

17 Then Naaman said, If not, please let someone give your servant two mule loads of dirt? for your servant will never again offer either burnt offering or sacrifice to other gods, but only to the LORD.

18 In this thing may the LORD pardon your servant, when my master the king goes into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leans on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon: when I bow down in the house of Rimmon, may the LORD pardon your servant of this thing.

19 And he said to him, Go in peace. So Naaman left him and had gone a short distance.

20 ¶ Then Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, thought, Look, my master has spared Naaman this Syrian, by not accepting from him the things that he brought: but, as the LORD lives, I will run after him, and take something from him.

21 So Gehazi followed Naaman. And when Naaman saw him running after him, he got down from the chariot to meet him, and asked, Is everything all right?

22 And he said, All is well. My master has sent me, saying, Just now two young men who are sons of the prophets have come to me from mount Ephraim: pray, give them a talent of silver, and two changes of clothing.

23 And Naaman said, Please 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 carried them before him.

24 But when he came to the hill, he took them from their hand, and put them in the house: and he let the men go, and they departed.

25 Then he went in, and stood before his master. And Elisha said to him, Where have you been Gehazi? And he said, Your servant did not go anywhere.

26 Then he said to him, Did not my heart go with you, when the man turned back from his chariot to meet you? Was it a time to receive money, garments, olive gardens, vineyards, sheep, oxen, menservants, and maidservants?

27 Therefore the leprosy of Naaman will cling to you, and to your descendants forever. And Gehazi went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.