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* Now Naaman , captain of the host of the king of Syria , was a great man with his master and in high esteem because by him the LORD had given salvation unto Syria ; he was also a mighty man in valour , [but he was ] a leper . * And the Syrians had gone out by companies and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid , and she waited on Naaman 's wife . * And she said unto her mistress , If my lord would ask the prophet that [is ] in Samaria , he would remove his leprosy . * And [Naaman ] went in and told his lord , saying , Thus and thus said the maid that [is ] of the land of Israel . * And the king of Syria said , Go , depart , 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 . * And he [also ] took the letter to the king of Israel , which said , Now when this letter is come unto thee , behold , I have [therewith ] sent Naaman , my servant , to thee , that thou may remove his leprosy . * And when the king of Israel read the letter , he rent his clothes and said , [Am ] I God , to kill and to give life , that this man sends unto me to remove the leprosy of this man ? Therefore now consider and see how he seeks a quarrel against me . * And when Elisha , the man of God , heard that the king of Israel had rent his clothes , he sent to the king , saying , Why hast thou rent thy clothes ? Let him come now to me , and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel . * So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariot and stood at the door of the house of Elisha . * And Elisha sent a messenger unto him , saying , Go and wash in the Jordan seven times , and thy flesh shall be restored , and thou shalt be clean . * But Naaman went away angry 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 remove the leprosy . * [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 . * Then his servants came near and spoke unto him , and said , My father , [if ] the prophet had bid thee [do some ] great thing , would thou not have done [it ]? How much rather then , when he saith to thee , Wash and be clean ? * Then went he down and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan , according to the word of the man of God ; and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child , and he was clean . * 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 the earth , but in Israel . Now therefore , I pray thee , take a blessing from thy servant . * But he said , As the LORD lives , before whom I stand , I will receive none . And he urged him to take [it ], but he refused . * Then Naaman said , Shall there not then , I pray thee , be given to thy servant two mules ' burden of earth ? For from now one thy servant will offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice unto other gods , but unto the LORD . * In this thing [may ] the LORD pardon thy servant , [that ] when my master goes into the house of Rimmon to worship there , and he leans on my hand , if I also bow myself in the house of Rimmon , that the LORD pardon thy servant in this thing , if I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon . * And he said unto him , Go in peace . So he departed from him a little way . * But Gehazi , the servant of Elisha the man of God , said , Behold , my master has spared Naaman , this Syrian , in not receiving at his hands that which he brought . As the LORD lives , I will run after him and take something from him . * So Gehazi followed after Naaman . And when Naaman saw [him ] running after him , he lighted down from the chariot to meet him and said , [Is ] there no peace ? * And he said , Peace . My master has sent me , saying , Behold , even now two young men of the sons of the prophets came to me from Mount Ephraim ; give them , I pray thee , a talent of silver and two changes of garments . * And Naaman said , If you wish 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 bore [them ] before him . * And when he came to a secret place , he took [them ] from their hand and bestowed [them ] in the house ; and he let the men go , and they departed . * But [when ] he went in and stood before his master , Elisha said unto him , From where [comest thou ], Gehazi ? And he said , Thy servant went nowhere . * Then he said unto him , Did not my heart go [with thee ] when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee ? [Is it ] a time to receive money and to receive garments and oliveyards and vineyards and sheep and oxen and menservants and maidservants ? * The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee and unto thy seed for ever . And he went out from his presence a leper [as white ] as snow .:

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