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Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable,
because by him the LORD had
given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, but
he was a leper.
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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.
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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.
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And one went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and thus said the maid that
is of the land of Israel.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariot, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha.
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And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and
thou shalt
be clean.
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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 LORD
his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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 of thy servant.
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But he said, As the LORD liveth, before whom I stand, I will receive none. And he urged him to take it; but he refused.
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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 LORD.
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In this thing the LORD 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 LORD pardon thy servant in
this thing.
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And he said unto him, Go in peace. So he departed from him a little way.
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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 LORD liveth, I will run after
him, and take somewhat of him.
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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 well?
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And he said, All is well. My master hath sent me, saying, Behold, even now there be come to me from
mount Ephraim two young men
of the sons of the prophets: give them, I pray thee, a talent of silver,
and two changes of garments.
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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 bare them before him.
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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.
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But he went in, and stood before his master. And Elisha said unto him, Whence comest
thou, Gehazi? And he said, Thy servant went no
whither.
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And he
said unto him, Went not mine heart 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?
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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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