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captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman’s wife.
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.
4
And
one
went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and thus said the maid that
is
of the land of Israel.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
9
So Naaman came with his horses and with his
chariot, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha.
10
And Elisha sent a messenger unto him,
saying, Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou
shalt be clean.
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 L
ORD
his God, and strike his hand
over the place, and recover the leper.
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.
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?
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.
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 earth, but in Israel: now therefore, I
pray thee, take a blessing of thy servant.
16
But he said,
As
the L
ORD
liveth, before whom I stand,
I will receive none. And he urged him to take
it;
but he refused.
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 L
ORD
.
18
In this
thing the L
ORD
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 L
ORD
pardon thy servant in this thing.
19
And he said unto him,
Go in peace. So he departed from him a little way.
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 L
ORD
liveth, I will run
after him, and take somewhat of him.
21
So Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman saw
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