2 Kings 5:1-15
New King James Version (NKJV)

Naaman’s Leprosy Healed
5 Now Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Syria, was a great and honorable man in the
eyes of his master, because by him the Lord had given victory to Syria. He was also a
mighty man of valor, but a leper. 2 And the Syrians had gone out on
raids, and had brought back captive a young girl from the land of Israel. She waited on Naaman’s
wife.3 Then she said to her mistress, “If only my master were with the prophet
who is in Samaria! For he would heal him of his
leprosy.” 4 And Naaman went in and told his master, saying, “Thus and
thus said the girl who is from the land of Israel.”

5 Then the king of Syria said, “Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel.”

So he departed and took with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of
gold, and ten changes of clothing.6 Then he brought the letter to the king of Israel, which
said,

Now be advised, when this letter comes to you, that I have sent Naaman my servant to you, that
you may heal him of his leprosy.

7 And it happened, when the king of Israel read the letter, that he tore his clothes and said,
“Am I God, to kill and make alive, that this man sends a man to me to heal him of his
leprosy? Therefore please consider, and see how he seeks a quarrel with me.”

8 So it was, when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes,
that he sent to the king, saying, “Why have you torn your clothes? Please let him come to me, and he
shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.”

9 Then Naaman went with his horses and chariot, and he stood at the door of Elisha’s
house. 10 And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, “Go and wash in the Jordan seven
times, and your flesh shall be restored to you, and you shall be
clean.” 11 But Naaman became furious, and went away and said, “Indeed, I said to myself,
‘He will surely come out to me, and stand and call on the name of
the Lord his God, and wave his hand over the place, and heal the
leprosy.’ 12 Are not the Abanah and the 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 went
away in a rage. 13 And his servants came near and spoke to him, and said, “My
father, if the prophet had told you to do something great, 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 seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying
of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.

15 And he returned to the man of God, he and all his aides, and came and stood before him; and
he said, “Indeed, now I know that there is no God in all the earth, except in
Israel; now therefore, please take a gift from your servant.”