1Now Naaman, commander of the army of the king or Aram (Syria), was a great man in the estimation of his master, and highly regarded, because through him the LORD had given victory to Aram; he was a mighty man in valor, but he was also a leper. 2And bands of Arameans had gone out on raids, and had carried away captive a little maid of the land of Israel who served Naaman's wife. 3And she told her mistress, “If only my lord (Naaman, the commander of the army) were with the prophet who is in Samaria! For he would cure him of his leprosy.” 4And someone went and told Naaman, “Thus and thus said the maid who is from the land of Israel.” And Naaman repeated that to the king. 5And the king of Aram said, “Go visit that prophet; and I will send a letter with you to the king of Israel.” And Naaman departed, taking with him ten talents of silver, six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of clothes. 6And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, which read, “Now when this letter comes to you, I have sent with it Naaman, my servant, that you may cure him of his leprosy.” 7And when the king (Jehoram, son of Ahab) read the letter, he tore his clothes, and said, “Am I God, that I can kill and to make alive again, that this man sends a man to me to cure his leprosy? Look how he seeks to pick a quarrel with me.”

8And when Elisha, the man of God, heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, he sent a message to King Jehoram, saying, “Why have you torn your clothes? Let him come to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.” 9So Naaman came with his horses and chariot, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha. 10And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, “Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored to you, and you shall be clean.” 11But Naaman went away angry, and said, “I thought, ‘Surely he will come out to me, stand, and call on the name of the LORD his God, and place his hand over the diseased place, and cure the leprosy. 12Are not Abana 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 left in a rage. 13But then Naaman’s servants came near, and said, “Sir, if the prophet had told you to do some difficult thing, would you have not done it? How much rather, then, when he just tells you, ‘Wash, and be clean?’” 14So then Naaman went down, and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, as Elisha, the man of God, had said; and his flesh became like the flesh of a little child, and he was cured.

15And Naaman and all his attendants returned and stood before to Elisha, the man of God, and said, “Now I know that there is no God in all the earth, except the God of Israel; so, please accept this gift from your servant.” 16But Elisha said, “As the LORD lives, before Whom I stand, I will accept nothing.” And Naaman urged him to take it; but he refused. 17And Naaman said, “Will you not then, give me two mules' load of earth, that I may take it back home with me? For hereafter, I will not offer my worship, burnt offerings, nor sacrifices to other gods, but only unto the LORD. 18And may the LORD pardon your servant in this thing - that when my master (the king of Syria) goes into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leans on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon; when I bow in the house of Rimmon, may the LORD pardon me for this.”

19And Elisha said to him, “Go in peace.” So Naaman departed. But after he had traveled a little way, 20Gehazi, Elisha’s servant, said, “Look, my master has spared Naaman, this Syrian, in not accepting what he offered; but, as the LORD lives, I will run after him, and get something from him.” 21So Gehazi ran after Naaman. And when Naaman saw him running after him, he stepped down from the chariot to meet him, and said, “Is everything OK?” 22And Gehazi said, “All is well. My master has sent me to say, ‘Just now there have come to me from Mount Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets: give them, I pray you, a talent of silver, and two changes of garments.’” 23And Naaman said, “By all means, take two talents.” And he urged him, and tied two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of garments, and laid them upon two of his servants, and they carried them ahead of Gehazi. 24And when he came to the hill, he took them from them, and stashed them in the house; and he sent the men away, and they departed. 25But when he went in to his master, Elisha asked him, “Where did you just come from, Gehazi?” And he said, “I have gone nowhere.” 26And Elisha said to him, “Did my heart not go with you, when the man stepped down from his chariot to meet you? Is this a time to receive money, garments, olive yards, vineyards, sheep, oxen, menservants, or maidservants? 27Therefore, the leprosy of Naaman shall cling to you, and to your offspring forever.” And he went from Elisha’s presence a leper, as white as snow.