1 Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him Jehovah had given victory unto Syria: he was also a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper. 2 And the Syrians had gone out in bands, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maiden; and she waited on Naaman’s wife. 3 And she said unto her mistress, Would that my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! then would he recover him of his leprosy. 4 And one went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and thus said the maiden that is of the land of Israel. 5 And the king of Syria said, Go now, 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. 6 And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, And now when this letter is come unto thee, behold, I have sent Naaman my servant to thee, that thou mayest recover him of his leprosy. 7 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? but consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.

8 And it was so, when Elisha the man of God 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. 9 So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariots, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha. 10 And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean. 11 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 Jehovah his God, and wave his hand over the place, and recover the leper. 12 Are not Abanah and Pharpar, the 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. 13 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? 14 Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in the 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.

1 En Na„man, die leërowerste van die koning van Aram, was 'n groot man voor sy heer en hoog in aansien; want deur hom het die HERE aan die Arameërs 'n oorwinning gegee; en die man was 'n dapper held, maar melaats.

2 En die Arameërs het in bendes uitgetrek en uit die land van Israel 'n klein dogtertjie as gevangene weggevoer wat in diens van Na„man se vrou gekom het.

3 En sy het vir haar meesteres gesê: Ag, was my heer maar net by die profeet wat in Samar¡a is, dan sou hy sy melaatsheid wegneem.

4 Toe gaan hy in en gee dit aan sy heer te kenne en sê: So en so het die dogtertjie gespreek wat uit die land van Israel kom.

5 En die koning van Aram sê: Gaan dan, ek wil 'n brief aan die koning van Israel stuur. En hy het gegaan en tien talente silwer en ses duisend sikkels goud en tien stel klere saam met hom geneem,

6 en aan die koning van Israel die brief gebring van die volgende inhoud: Saam met hierdie brief aan u stuur ek dan nou my dienaar Na„man na u toe, dat u sy melaatsheid kan wegneem.

7 Sodra die koning van Israel die brief gelees het, skeur hy sy klere en sê: Is ek dan God, om dood en lewend te maak, dat hierdie man na my stuur om van 'n man sy melaatsheid weg te neem? Erken en sien tog net hoedat hy 'n geleentheid teen my soek.

8 Maar toe El¡sa, die man van God, hoor dat die koning van Israel sy klere geskeur het, laat hy die koning weet: Waarom skeur u u klere? Laat hom maar na my kom; dan sal hy weet dat daar 'n profeet in Israel is.

9 So het Na„man dan gekom met sy perde en met sy waens en voor die deur van El¡sa se huis stilgehou.

10 Toe stuur El¡sa 'n boodskapper na hom om te sê: Gaan heen, was jou sewe maal in die Jordaan; dan sal jou vlees terugkeer, en jy sal rein wees.

11 Maar Na„man het baie kwaad geword en weggegaan en gesê: Kyk, ek het gedink: Hy sal sekerlik na my uitkom en staan en die Naam van die HERE sy God aanroep en sy hand oor die plek heen en weer beweeg en die melaatsheid wegneem.

12 Is Ab na en Farpar, die riviere van Damaskus, nie beter as al die waters van Israel nie? Kon ek my nie daarin was en rein word nie? En hy het omgedraai en vererg weggery.

13 Toe kom sy dienaars nader en spreek met hom en sê: My vader, as die profeet u 'n groot saak beveel het, sou u dit nie doen nie? Hoeveel te meer nou dat hy u gesê het: Was jou, en jy sal rein word?

14 Daarop het hy afgeklim en sewe maal in die Jordaan ondergeduik volgens die woord van die man van God, en sy vlees het teruggekeer soos die vlees van 'n jong seun, en hy het rein geword.