2Ki 5:1-14 | NASB1995 | STEP | Now Naaman , captain of the army of the king of Aram , was a great man with his master , and highly respected , because by him the Lord had given victory to Aram . The man was also a valiant warrior , but he was a leper .

2 Kings 5:1-14

1 Now ^aNaaman, captain of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man ^{▼▼ Lit before}with his master, and highly respected, because by him the Lord had given victory to Aram. The man was also a valiant warrior, but he was a leper. 2 Now the Arameans had gone out ^cin bands and had taken captive a little girl from the land of Israel; and she ^{▼▼ Lit was before}waited on Naaman’s wife. 3 She said to her mistress, “I wish that my master were ^{▼▼ Lit before}with the prophet who is in Samaria! Then he would cure him of his leprosy.” 4 ^{▼▼ Lit He}Naaman went in and told his master, saying, “Thus and thus spoke the girl who is from the land of Israel.” 5 Then the king of Aram said, “Go ^{▼▼ Lit enter}now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel.” He departed and ^htook with him ten talents of silver and six thousand shekels of gold and ten ⁱchanges of clothes.

6 He brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, “And now as this letter comes to you, behold, I have sent Naaman my servant to you, that you may cure him of his leprosy.” 7 When the king of Israel read the letter, ^jhe tore his clothes and said, ^k“Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man is sending word to me to cure a man of his leprosy? But ^lconsider now, and see how he is seeking ^{▼▼ Lit an occasion}a quarrel against me.”

8 It happened when Elisha ⁿthe 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 Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, ^o“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 ^{▼▼ Lit said}thought, ‘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 cure the leper.’ 12 “Are not ^{▼▼ Another reading is Amanah}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 ^rwent away in a rage. 13 ^sThen his servants came near and spoke to him and said, ^t“My father, had the prophet told 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 ^uhis flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child and ^vhe was clean.