rsv 2Kings:5:1-7
rsv@2Kings:5:1 @ Na'aman, commander of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master and in high favor, because by him the LORD had given victory to Syria. He was a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.
rsv@2Kings:5:2 @ Now the Syrians on one of their raids had carried off a little maid from the land of Israel, and she waited on Na'aman's wife.
rsv@2Kings:5:3 @ She said to her mistress, "Would that my lord were with the prophet who is in Sama'ria! He would cure him of his leprosy."
rsv@2Kings:5:4 @ So Na'aman went in and told his lord, "Thus and so spoke the maiden from the land of Israel."
rsv@2Kings:5:5 @ And the king of Syria said, "Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel." So he went, taking with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, and ten festal garments.
rsv@2Kings:5:6 @ And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, which read, "When this letter reaches you, know that I have sent to you Na'aman my servant, that you may cure him of his leprosy."
rsv@2Kings:5:7 @ And when the king of Israel read the letter, he rent his clothes and said, "Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends word to me to cure a man of his leprosy? Only consider, and see how he is seeking a quarrel with me."