1 Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him Jehovah had given deliverance to Syria: he was also a mighty man in valor, but he was a leper.
2 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.
3 And she said to 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 to 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 has come to you, I have sent Naaman my servant to you, that you may heal him of his leprosy.
7 When the king of Israel had read the letter, he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man does send to me to recover a man of his leprosy? Therefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeks 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, Why have you rent your 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 to him, saying, Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall come again to you, and you shall be pure.
11 But Naaman was angry, and went away, and said, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of Jehovah 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 pure? So he turned and went away in a rage.
13 And his servants came near, and spoke to him, and said, My father, if the prophet had commanded you do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much rather then, when he says to you, Wash, and be pure?
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 to the flesh of a little child, and he was pure.
15 And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him: and he said, now I know that there is no God in all the Earth, but in Israel: now therefore, I pray you, take a blessing of your servant.
16 But he said, As Jehovah lives, 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 you, be given to your servant two mules' burden of Earth? For your servant will from now on offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice to other gods, but to Jehovah.
18 In this thing Jehovah pardon your servant, that when my master goes into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leans on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon: when I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, Jehovah pardon your servant in this thing.
19 And he said to him, Go in completeness. So he departed from him a little way.
20 But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, my master has spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought: but, as Jehovah lives, I will run after him, and take somewhat of him.
21 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 all completeness ?
22 And he said, All is well. My master has sent me, saying, even now there be come to me from mount Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets: give them, I pray you, a talent of silver, and two changes of garments.
23 And Naaman said, Be content, 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 carried them before him.
24 And when he came to the tower, he took them from their hand, and bestowed them in the house: and he let the men go, and they departed.
25 But he went in, and stood before his master. And Elisha said to him, "Where do you come from, Gehazi?" And he said, "Your servant went nowhere."
26 And he said to him, "Didn't my mind go with you when the man turned again from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and men servants, and maid servants?
27 The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall stick to you, and to your descendents for the age." And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.