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The Healing of Naaman

5Naaman, the commander of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man in the opinion of his master. He was highly favored, because by him the Lord had given victory to Aram. Though he was a mighty and valiant man, he was suffering from leprosy.H5283H8269H6635H4428H758H1419H376H6440H113H5375H3068H5414H8668H758H1368H376H2428H6879
2On one of their raids to the territory of Israel, Aram had taken captive a young girl when she was an infant, who had eventually become an attendant to Naaman's wife.H758H3318H1416H7617H776H3478H6996H5291H6440H5283H802
3She mentioned to her mistress, "If only my master were to visit the prophet who is in Samaria! He would cure him of his leprosy."H559H1404H305H113H6440H5030H8111H227H622H6883
4Later, Naaman went to inform his master and told him something like this: "Thus and so spoke the young woman from the territory of Israel."H935H5046H113H559H1696H5291H776H3478
5The king of Aram replied, "Go now, and I'll send a letter to the king of Israel." So he left and took with him ten talents of silver and 6,000 units of gold, along with ten sets of clothing.H4428H758H559H3212H935H7971H5612H4428H3478H3212H3947H3027H6235H3603H3701H8337H505H2091H6235H2487H899
6He also brought the letter to the king of Israel, which read as follows: "…and now as this letter finds its way to you, look! I've sent my servant Naaman to you so you may heal him of his leprosy."H935H5612H4428H3478H559H5612H935H7971H5283H5650H622H6883
7When the king of Israel read the letter, he ripped his clothes and cried out, "Am I God?Can I kill and give life?Is this man sending me a request to heal a man's leprosy?Let's think about this - he's looking for a reason to start a fight with me!"H4428H3478H7121H5612H7167H899H559H430H4191H2421H2088H7971H622H376H6883H389H3045H7200H579
8When Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, he sent a message to the king and asked, "Why did you tear your clothes?Please, let the man come visit me and he will learn that there is a prophet in Israel!"H477H376H430H8085H4428H3478H7167H899H7971H4428H559H7167H899H935H3045H3426H5030H3478
9So Naaman arrived with his horses and chariots and stood in front of the door to Elisha's house.H5283H935H5483H7393H5975H6607H1004H477
10Elisha sent a messenger out to him, who told him, "Go bathe in the Jordan River seven times. Your flesh will be restored for you. Now stay clean!"H477H7971H4397H559H1980H7364H3383H7651H6471H1320H7725H2891
11But Naaman flew into a rage and left, telling himself, "Look! I thought 'He's surely going to come out to me, stand still, call out in the name of the Lord his God, wave his hand over the infection, and cure the leprosy!'H5283H7107H3212H559H559H3318H3318H5975H7121H8034H3068H430H5130H3027H4725H622H6879
12Aren't the Abanah and Pharpar rivers in Damascus better than all of the water in Israel?Couldn't I just bathe in them and become clean?" So he turned away and left, filled with anger.H71H549H6554H5104H1834H2896H4325H3478H7364H2891H6437H3212H2534
13But then his servants approached him and spoke with him. They said, "My father, had the prophet only asked of you something great, you would have done it, wouldn't you?Yet he said to you, 'Bathe, and be clean…!'H5650H5066H1696H559H1H5030H1696H1419H1697H6213H637H559H7364H2891
14So he went down and plunged himself into the Jordan River seven times, just as the man of God had said, and his flesh rejuvenated like the flesh of a newborn child. And he was clean.H3381H2881H7651H6471H3383H1697H376H430H1320H7725H1320H6996H5288H2891

Gehazi’s Greed is Punished

15Naaman went back to the man of God, along with his entire entourage, and stood before him. "Please look!" he said. "I know that there is no God in all the earth, except in Israel! So please, take a present from your servant."H7725H376H430H4264H935H5975H6440H559H3045H430H776H3478H3947H1293H5650
16But Elisha replied, "As the Lord lives, before whom I stand, I will not receive anything from you." Though Naaman urged him to take it, Elisha declined.H559H3068H2416H6440H5975H3947H6484H3947H3985
17So Naaman asked, "No?Then please let your servant load two mules with dirt from Israel, because your servant will no longer offer any burnt offering or sacrifice to any other god but the Lord.H5283H559H5414H5650H6776H6505H4853H127H5650H6213H5930H2077H312H430H3068
18In this one area may the Lord pardon your servant: Whenever my master enters the temple of Rimmon to worship there, he will lean on my hand while I bow down in the temple of Rimmon. So may the Lord pardon your servant in this one area."H1697H3068H5545H5650H113H935H1004H7417H7812H8172H3027H7812H1004H7417H7812H1004H7417H3068H5545H5650H1697
19"Go in peace," he said. So Naaman left. After Naaman had gone only a short distance,H559H3212H7965H3212H3530H776
20Gehazi, the attendant to Elisha the man of God, said to himself, "Look how my master has spared this Aramean Naaman! He declined to take from him what he brought. As the Lord lives, I'm going to run after him and get something from him."H1522H5288H477H376H430H559H113H2820H5283H761H3947H3027H935H3068H2416H7323H310H3947H3972
21So Gehazi ran after Naaman. When Naaman noticed someone running after him, he came down from his chariot, greeted him and asked, "Is everything all right?"H1522H7291H310H5283H5283H7200H7323H310H5307H4818H7125H559H7965
22Gehazi said, "Everything's all right. My master sent me to tell you, 'Just now two men from the Guild of Prophets have arrived from the hill country of Ephraim. Please give them a talent of silver bullion and two sets of clothes.'"H559H7965H113H7971H559H935H2022H669H8147H5288H1121H5030H5414H3603H3701H8147H2487H899
23But Naaman said, "Please accept my invitation to take two talents of silver bullion." He urged him, binding two talents of silver bullion in two bags, along with two sets of clothes. He placed them in the care of two of his young men, and they went on ahead of Gehazi.H5283H559H2974H3947H3603H6555H6696H8147H3603H3701H8147H2754H8147H2487H899H5414H8147H5288H5375H6440
24When he arrived at the stronghold, Gehazi took the bags from their custody and hid them away in the house. Then he sent the men away and they left.5H935H6076H3947H3027H6485H1004H582H7971H3212
25Later he went to address his master. Elisha asked him, "Where did you go, Gehazi?" "Your servant went nowhere in particular," he said.H935H5975H113H477H559H370H1522H559H5650H1980H575
26But Elisha responded, "Didn't my heart break as the man was turning from his chariot to greet you?Is now the time to receive money?To receive clothes?And olive groves, vineyards, sheep, oxen, servants, or female attendants?H559H1980H3820H376H2015H4818H7125H6256H3947H3701H3947H899H2132H3754H6629H1241H5650H8198
27Naaman's leprosy will plague you and your descendants forever!" As he left Elisha's presence, he was infected with leprosy that looked like white snow.H6883H5283H1692H2233H5769H3318H6440H6879H7950


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