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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>2 Kings 5</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/bsb/spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/2_kings/5.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmc//2_kings/5-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="/2_kings/">2 Kings</a> > 2 Kings 5</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_kings/4.htm" title="2 Kings 4">◄</a> 2 Kings 5 <a href="../2_kings/6.htm" title="2 Kings 6">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div align="center" id="jump2"><a href="/niv/2_kings/5.htm">NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/2_kings/5.htm">NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/2_kings/5.htm">ESV</a> • <a href="/kjv/2_kings/5.htm">KJV</a> • <a href="/nkjv/2_kings/5.htm">NKJ</a> • <a href="/nasb/2_kings/5.htm">NAS</a></div><br /><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="1%" valign="top">BSB</td><td width="99%" valign="top" align="right"><a href="/parallel/2_kings/5.htm" style="font-weight:normal" title="Parallel Chapters">Parallel Chapters ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Naaman Cured of Leprosy<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../luke/17.htm#11">Luke 17:11–19</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/5-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Now Naaman, the commander of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man in his master’s sight and highly regarded, for through him the LORD had given victory to Aram. And he was a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> <A name="3"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/5-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>At this time the Arameans had gone out in bands and had taken a young girl from the land of Israel, and she was serving Naaman’s wife. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>She said to her mistress, “If only my master would go to the prophet who is in Samaria, he would cure him of his leprosy.” <A name="5"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And Naaman went and told his master what the girl from the land of Israel had said. <A name="6"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“Go now,” said the king of Aram, “and I will send you with a letter to the king of Israel.” <p class="reg"> So Naaman departed, taking with him ten talents of silver,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> six thousand shekels of gold,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span> and ten sets of clothing. <A name="7"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And the letter that he took to the king of Israel stated: “With this letter I am sending my servant Naaman, so that you may cure him of his leprosy.” <A name="8"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and asked, “Am I God, killing and giving life, that this man expects me to cure a leper? Surely you can see that he is seeking a quarrel with me!” <A name="9"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Now when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, he sent a message to the king: “Why have you torn your clothes? Please let the man come to me, and he will know that there is a prophet in Israel.” <A name="10"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>So Naaman came with his horses and chariots and stood at the door of Elisha’s house. <A name="11"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Then Elisha sent him a messenger, who said, “Go and wash yourself seven times in the Jordan, and your flesh will be restored, and you will be clean.” <A name="12"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>But Naaman went away angry, saying, “I thought that he would surely come out, stand and call on the name of the LORD his God, and wave his hand over the spot to cure my leprosy. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Are not the Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not have washed in them and been cleansed?” So he turned and went away in a rage. <A name="14"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Naaman’s servants, however, approached him and said, “My father, if the prophet had told you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much more, then, when he tells you, ‘Wash and be cleansed’?” <A name="15"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>So Naaman went down and dipped himself in the Jordan seven times, according to the word of the man of God, and his flesh was restored and became like that of a little child, and he was clean. <A name="16"></a><p class="hdg">Gehazi’s Greed and Leprosy<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Then Naaman and all his attendants went back to the man of God, stood before him, and declared, “Now I know for sure that there is no God in all the earth except in Israel. So please accept a gift from your servant.” <A name="17"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>But Elisha replied, “As surely as the LORD lives, before whom I stand, I will not accept it.” And although Naaman urged him to accept it, he refused. <A name="18"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/5-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“If you will not,” said Naaman, “please let me, your servant, be given as much soil as a pair of mules can carry. For your servant will never again make a burnt offering or a sacrifice to any other god but the LORD. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/5-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Yet may the LORD forgive your servant this one thing: When my master goes into the temple of Rimmon to worship there, and he leans on my arm, and I bow down in the temple of Rimmon, may the LORD forgive your servant in this matter.” <A name="20"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/5-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>“Go in peace,” said Elisha. <p class="reg"> But after Naaman had traveled a short distance, <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/5-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “Look, my master has spared this Aramean, Naaman, while not accepting what he brought. As surely as the LORD lives, I will run after him and get something from him.” <A name="22"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/5-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>So Gehazi pursued Naaman. And when Naaman saw him running toward him, he got down from the chariot to meet him and asked, “Is everything all right?” <A name="23"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/5-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>“Everything is all right,” Gehazi replied. “My master has sent me to say, ‘I have just now discovered that two young men from the sons of the prophets have come to me from the hill country of Ephraim. Please give them a talent of silver<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">d</a></span> and two sets of clothing.’<span class="thinq"> </span>” <A name="24"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/5-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>But Naaman insisted, “Please, take two talents.” And he urged Gehazi to accept them. Then he tied up two talents of silver in two bags along with two sets of clothing and gave them to two of his servants, who carried them ahead of Gehazi. <A name="25"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/5-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>When Gehazi came to the hill, he took the gifts from the servants and stored them in the house. Then he dismissed the men, and they departed. <A name="26"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/5-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>When Gehazi went in and stood before his master, Elisha asked him, “Gehazi, where have you been?” <p class="reg">“Your servant did not go anywhere,” he replied. <A name="27"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/5-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>But Elisha questioned him, “Did not my spirit go with you when the man got down from his chariot to meet you? Is this the time to accept money and clothing, olive groves and vineyards, sheep and oxen, menservants and maidservants? <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/5-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Therefore, the leprosy of Naaman will cling to you and your descendants forever!” <p class="reg"> And as Gehazi left his presence, he was leprous—as white as snow.</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">1</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> A <i>leper</i><span class="thin"> </span>, or one with <i>leprosy</i><span class="thin"> </span>, was one afflicted with a skin disease; here and throughout this chapter; see <a href="../leviticus/13.htm">Leviticus 13</a>.<br><span class="fnverse">5</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <i>10 talents</i><span class="thin"> </span> is approximately 754 pounds or 342 kilograms of silver.<br><span class="fnverse">5</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <i>6,000 shekels</i><span class="thin"> </span> is approximately 150.8 pounds or 68.4 kilograms of gold.<br><span class="fnverse">22</span> <span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <i>A talent</i><span class="thin"> </span> is approximately 75.4 pounds or 34.2 kilograms of silver.<br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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