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? So he turned and went away in a rage.
13
Then his slaves came near and spoke unto him, and said, My father,
if the prophet had bid thee
do some great thing, would 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 word of the man of God; and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
15
And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came and stood before him, and he said, Behold, now I know that
there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel. Now therefore, I pray thee, take a blessing from thy slave.
16
But he said, As the LORD lives, before whom I stand, I will receive none. And he urged him to take
it, but he refused.
17
Then Naaman said, Shall there not then, I pray thee, be given to thy slave two mules’ burden of earth? For from now one thy slave will offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice unto other gods, but unto the LORD.
18
In this thing
may the LORD pardon thy slave,
that when my master goes into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leans on my hand, if I also bow myself in the house of Rimmon, that the LORD pardon thy slave in this thing, if I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon.
19
And he said unto him, Go in peace. So he departed from him a little way.
20
But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master has spared Naaman, this Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought. As the LORD lives, I will run after him and take something from him.
21
So Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman saw
him running after him, he lighted down from the chariot to meet him and said,
Is there no peace?
22
And he said, Peace. My master has sent me, saying, Behold, even now two young men of the sons of the prophets came to me from Mount Ephraim; give them, I pray thee, a talent of silver and two changes of garments.