6
And he
also took the letter to the king of Israel, which said, Now when this letter is come unto thee, behold, I have
therewith sent Naaman, my slave, to thee, that thou may remove his leprosy.
7
And when the king of Israel read the letter, he rent his clothes and said,
Am I God, to kill and to give life, that this man sends unto me to remove the leprosy of this man? Therefore now consider and see how he seeks a quarrel against me.
8
And when Elisha, the man of God, heard that the king of Israel had rent his clothes, he sent to the king, saying, Why 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 chariot 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 be restored, and thou shalt be clean.
11
But Naaman went away angry and said, Behold, I thought, 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 remove the leprosy.
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.