1 亚兰王的军长乃缦在他的主人面前是一个大人物， 很得王的赏识， 因为耶和华曾借他把胜利赐给亚兰。这个人是个勇猛的战士， 可惜他是个痲风病人。

2 亚兰人曾经出去结队抢掠， 从以色列地掳了一个小女孩， 她就侍候乃缦的妻子。

3 她对她的女主人说： "如果我的主人去见撒玛利亚的先知就好了， 他必定能治好他的痲风。"

4 于是乃缦去告诉他的主人说： "从以色列地掳回来的女孩子这样这样说。"

5 亚兰王说： "你去吧！ 我会送一封书信给以色列王的。"于是乃缦去了， 手里带着三百公斤银子， 约七十公斤金子和十套衣裳。

6 他把信带到以色列王那里， 信上说： "这信既已达到你那里， 你看见我差去见你的臣仆乃缦， 你就要医好他的痲风。"

7 以色列王读了这信后， 就撕裂自己的衣服， 说： "我是 神， 能使人死使人活吗？这人竟派人到我这里来， 要我治好他的痲风。请你们想想看， 他是要找机会攻击我。"

8 神人以利沙听见以色列王撕裂自己的衣服， 就打发人去见王说： "你为什么撕裂自己的衣服呢？请你把他送到我这里来吧！ 他就知道在以色列中有先知了。"

9 于是乃缦带着他的车马来到， 停在以利沙的门前。

10 以利沙差派一个使者去见他说： "你去在约旦河中沐浴七次， 你的身体就会复原， 得着洁净。"

11 乃缦却发怒走了， 他说： "我以为他必会出来， 站着求告耶和华他的 神的名， 向着患处摇手， 洁净这痲风病。

12 大马士革的亚罢拿河和法珥法河， 不是比以色列一切河流更好吗？我不是可以在那里沐浴， 得着洁净吗？"于是他掉过头来， 气忿忿地走了。

13 他的仆人上前， 对他说： "我父啊， 先知如果吩咐你作一件大事， 你不是照着行吗？何况他只是说： ‘你去沐浴就得洁净’呢？"

14 于是他下去， 在约旦河里浸了七趟， 正如神人所吩咐的。他的肌肉就复原， 好像小孩子的肌肉， 他就得了洁净。

1 Now Naaman, captain of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him Yahweh had given victory to Syria; he was also a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper. 2 The Syrians had gone out in bands, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little girl, and she waited on Naaman’s wife. 3 She said to her mistress, "I wish that my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! Then he would heal him of his leprosy."

4 Someone went in and told his lord, saying, "The girl who is from the land of Israel said this."

5 The king of Syria said, "Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel."

He departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of clothing. 6 He brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, "Now when this letter has come to you, behold, I have sent Naaman my servant to you, that you may heal him of his leprosy."

7 When the king of Israel had read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, "Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends to me to heal a man of his leprosy? But please consider and see how he seeks a quarrel against me."

8 It was so, 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? 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 Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, "Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall come again to you, and you shall be clean."

11 But Naaman was angry, and went away and said, "Behold, I thought, ‘He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of Yahweh his God, and wave his hand over the place, and heal the leper.’ 12 Aren’t Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Couldn’t I wash in them and be clean?" So he turned and went away in a rage.

13 His servants came near and spoke to him, and said, "My father, if the prophet had asked you do some great thing, wouldn’t you have done it? How much rather then, when he says to you, ‘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 was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.