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2 Kings 5 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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Naaman’s Leprosy Healed
The Cure of Naaman’s Leprosy
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:1 - Now Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Syria, was a great and honorable man in the eyes of his master, because by him the LORD had given victory to Syria. He was also a mighty man of valor, but a leper.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:2 - And the Syrians had gone out on raids, and had brought back captive a young girl from the land of Israel. She waited on Naaman’s wife.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:3 - Then she said to her mistress, “If only my master were with the prophet who is in Samaria! For he would heal him of his leprosy.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:4 - And Naaman went in and told his master, saying, “Thus and thus said the girl who is from the land of Israel.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:5 - Then the king of Syria said, “Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel.” So he departed and took with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, and ten changes of clothing.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:6 - Then he brought the letter to the king of Israel, which said,
Now be advised, when this letter comes to you, that I have sent Naaman my servant to you, that you may heal him of his leprosy.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:7 - And it happened, when the king of Israel read the letter, that he tore his clothes and said, “Am I God, to kill and make alive, that this man sends a man to me to heal him of his leprosy? Therefore please consider, and see how he seeks a quarrel with me.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:8 - So it was, when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, “Why have you torn your clothes? Please let him come to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:9 - Then Naaman went with his horses and chariot, and he stood at the door of Elisha’s house.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:10 - And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, “Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored to you, and you shall be clean.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:11 - But Naaman became furious, and went away and said, “Indeed, I said to myself, ‘He will surely come out to me, and stand and call on the name of the LORD his God, and wave his hand over the place, and heal the leprosy.’
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:12 - Are not the Abanah[fn] and the Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them and be clean?” So he turned and went away in a rage.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:13 - And his servants came near and spoke to him, and said, “My father, if the prophet had told you to do something great, would you not have done it? How much more then, when he says to you, ‘Wash, and be clean’?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:14 - So he went down and dipped seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:15 - And he returned to the man of God, he and all his aides, and came and stood before him; and he said, “Indeed, now I know that there is no God in all the earth, except in Israel; now therefore, please take a gift from your servant.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:16 - But he said, “As the LORD lives, before whom I stand, I will receive nothing.” And he urged him to take it, but he refused.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:17 - So Naaman said, “Then, if not, please let your servant be given two mule-loads of earth; for your servant will no longer offer either burnt offering or sacrifice to other gods, but to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:18 - “Yet in this thing may the LORD pardon your servant: when my master goes into the temple of Rimmon to worship there, and he leans on my hand, and I bow down in the temple of Rimmon—when I bow down in the temple of Rimmon, may the LORD please pardon your servant in this thing.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:19 - Then he said to him, “Go in peace.” So he departed from him a short distance.
Gehazi’s Greed
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:20 - But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “Look, my master has spared Naaman this Syrian, while not receiving from his hands what he brought; but as the LORD lives, I will run after him and take something from him.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:21 - So Gehazi pursued Naaman. When Naaman saw him running after him, he got down from the chariot to meet him, and said, “Is all well?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:22 - And he said, “All is well. My master has sent me, saying, ‘Indeed, just now two young men of the sons of the prophets have come to me from the mountains of Ephraim. Please give them a talent of silver and two changes of garments.’ ”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:23 - So 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 handed them to two of his servants; and they carried them on ahead of him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:24 - When he came to the citadel, he took them from their hand, and stored them away in the house; then he let the men go, and they departed.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:25 - Now he went in and stood before his master. Elisha said to him, “Where did you go, Gehazi?” And he said, “Your servant did not go anywhere.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:26 - Then he said to him, “Did not my heart go with you when the man turned back from his chariot to meet you? Is it time to receive money and to receive clothing, olive groves and vineyards, sheep and oxen, male and female servants?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:27 - “Therefore the leprosy of Naaman shall cling to you and your descendants forever.” And he went out from his presence leprous, as white as snow.
NKJV Footnotes
Following Kethib, Septuagint, and Vulgate; Qere, Syriac, and Targum read Amanah.
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