1 And Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Syria, was a great and exalted man with his master, because the LORD had given deliverance to Syria by him. He was also a mighty man, [but] a leper.

2 And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and captured a little girl out of the land of Israel. And she waited on Naaman's wife.

3 And she said to her mistress, I wish my lord [were] with the prophet in Samaria! For he would recover him from his leprosy.

4 And [one] went in and told his lord, saying, This and this said the girl from the land of Israel.

5 And the king of Syria said, Go, go in and I will send a letter to the king of Israel. And he departed and took with him ten talents of silver and six thousand of gold, and ten changes of clothing.

6 And he came in [with] the letter to the king of Israel, saying, And now when this letter has come to you, behold, I have sent Naaman my servant to you. And you shall recover him of his leprosy.

7 And it happened when the king of Israel 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 recover a man from his leprosy? For consider now, and see, for he is coiling himself toward me.

8 And it happened when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, he sent to the king, saying, Why have you torn your clothes? Let him now come to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.

9 And Naaman came with his horses and with his chariot, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha.

10 And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall come to you, and you shall be clean.

11 But Naaman was angry, and went away. And he said, Behold, I said within myself, 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 [Are] not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? May I not wash in them, and be clean? And he turned and went away in a rage.

13 And his servants came near and spoke to him and said, My father, [if] the prophet had told you [to do] a great thing, would you not have done [it]? How much rather then, when he says to you, Wash and be clean?

14 And he went down and dipped seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God. And his flesh came again like the flesh of a little boy, and he was clean.