12:005:003 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.
12:005:004 And one went in, and told his lord, saying,
Thus and thus said
the
maid that is of the land of Israel.
12:005:005 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.
12:005:006 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.
12:005:007 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.
12:005:008 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.
12:005:009 So Naaman came with his horses and with
his chariot, and stood
at
the door of the house of Elisha.
12:005:010 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.
12:005:011 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.
12:005:012 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.
12:005:013 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?
12:005:014 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.
12:005:015 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.


