2 Kings 5:8-18

Legacy Standard Bible

⁸ Now it happened when Elisha ^(A)the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, that he sent word to the king, saying, “Why have you torn your clothes? Now let him come to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.” ⁹ So Naaman came with his horses and his chariots and stood at the doorway of the house of Elisha. ¹⁰ And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, “^(B)Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh will be restored to you and you will be clean.” ¹¹ But Naaman was furious and went away and said, “Behold, I said to myself, ‘He will surely come out to me and stand and call on the name of Yahweh his God, and wave his hand over the place and cure the leper.’ ¹² Are not ^[a]Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them and be clean?” So he turned and ^(C)went away in wrath. ^13 (D)Then his servants approached and spoke to him and said, “^(E)My father, had the prophet spoken with you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much more then, when he says to you, ‘Wash, and be clean’?” ¹⁴ So he went down and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God; and ^(F)his flesh was restored like the flesh of a young boy and ^(G)he was clean.

Gehazi’s Leprosy

¹⁵ Then he returned to the man of God ^[b]with all his camp, and came and stood before him, and said, “Behold now, ^(H)I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel; so now please ^(I)take a blessing from your servant.” ¹⁶ But he said, “^(J)As Yahweh lives, before whom I stand, ^(K)I will take nothing.” And he urged him to take it, but he refused. ¹⁷ So Naaman said, “If not, please let your servant at least be given two mules’ load of ^(L)earth; for your servant will no longer offer burnt offering nor will he sacrifice to other gods, but to Yahweh. ¹⁸ In this matter may Yahweh pardon your servant: when my master goes into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and ^(M)he leans on my hand and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon, when I bow myself in the house of Rimmon, Yahweh pardon your servant in this matter.”