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2 Kings 5 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:1 - Na'aman, commander of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master and in high favor, because by him the LORD had given victory to Syria. He was a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:2 - Now the Syrians on one of their raids had carried off a little maid from the land of Israel, and she waited on Na'aman's wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:3 - She said to her mistress, "Would that my lord were with the prophet who is in Sama'ria! He would cure him of his leprosy."

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:4 - So Na'aman went in and told his lord, "Thus and so spoke the maiden from the land of Israel."

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:5 - And the king of Syria said, "Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel." So he went, taking with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, and ten festal garments.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:6 - And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, which read, "When this letter reaches you, know that I have sent to you Na'aman my servant, that you may cure him of his leprosy."

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:7 - And when the king of Israel read the letter, he rent his clothes and said, "Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends word to me to cure a man of his leprosy? Only consider, and see how he is seeking a quarrel with me."

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:8 - But when Eli'sha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had rent his clothes, he sent to the king, saying, "Why have you rent your clothes? Let him come now to me, that he may know that there is a prophet in Israel."

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:9 - So Na'aman came with his horses and chariots, and halted at the door of Eli'sha's house.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:10 - And Eli'sha sent a messenger to him, saying, "Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored, and you shall be clean."

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:11 - But Na'aman was angry, and went away, saying, "Behold, I thought that he would 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 cure the leper.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:12 - Are not Aba'na 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 went away in a rage.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:13 - But his servants came near and said to him, "My father, if the prophet had commanded you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much rather, then, when he says to you, 'Wash, and be clean'?"

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:14 - So he went down and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.

Gehazi's Greed

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:15 - Then he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and he came and stood before him; and he said, "Behold, I know that there is no God in all the earth but in Israel; so accept now a present from your servant."

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:16 - But he said, "As the LORD lives, whom I serve, I will receive none." And he urged him to take it, but he refused.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:17 - Then Na'aman said, "If not, I pray you, let there be given to your servant two mules' burden of earth; for henceforth your servant will not offer burnt offering or sacrifice to any god but the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:18 - In this matter may the LORD pardon your servant: when my master goes into the house of Rimmon to worship there, leaning on my arm, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon, when I bow myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon your servant in this matter."

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:19 - He said to him, "Go in peace." But when Na'aman had gone from him a short distance,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:20 - Geha'zi, the servant of Eli'sha the man of God, said, "See, my master has spared this Na'aman the Syrian, in not accepting from his hand what he brought. As the LORD lives, I will run after him, and get something from him."

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:21 - So Geha'zi followed Na'aman. And when Na'aman saw some one running after him, he alighted from the chariot to meet him, and said, "Is all well?"

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:22 - And he said, "All is well. My master has sent me to say, 'There have just now come to me from the hill country of E'phraim two young men of the sons of the prophets; pray, give them a talent of silver and two festal garments.'"

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:23 - And Na'aman said, "Be pleased to accept two talents." And he urged him, and tied up two talents of silver in two bags, with two festal garments, and laid them upon two of his servants; and they carried them before Geha'zi.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:24 - And when he came to the hill, he took them from their hand, and put them in the house; and he sent the men away, and they departed.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:25 - He went in, and stood before his master, and Eli'sha said to him, "Where have you been, Geha'zi?" And he said, "Your servant went nowhere."

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:26 - But he said to him, "Did I not go with you in spirit when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Was it a time to accept money and garments, olive orchards and vineyards, sheep and oxen, menservants and maidservants?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:27 - Therefore the leprosy of Na'aman shall cleave to you, and to your descendants for ever." So he went out from his presence a leper, as white as snow.
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Source: Transcribed from: The Holy Bible: Revised Standard Version containing the Old and New Testaments, translated from the original tongues: being the version set forth A.D. 1611, revised A.D. 1881-1885 and A.D. 1901: compared with the most ancient authorities and revised A.D. 1946-52. — 2nd ed. of New Testament A.D. 1971. There should be enough in the rest of the description to identify the text.

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