The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[Lucy-Pevensie]

2 Kings 5:3 (NASB)

[FONT=&quot]She said to her mistress, “I wish that my master were with the prophet who is in Samaria! Then he would cure him of his leprosy.”[/FONT][FONT=&quot]


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[LOLOKGal]

[FONT=comic\ sans\ ms][2Ki 5:4 ESV] 4 So Naaman went in and told his lord, "Thus and so spoke the girl from the land of Israel."[/FONT]


(one of my favorite stories of the Bible!)

 

[willfollowsGod]

2 Kings 5:5
New International Version (NIV)

“By all means, go,” the king of Aram replied. “I will send a letter to the king of Israel.” So Naaman left, taking with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels[c] of gold and ten sets of clothing.

a. The Hebrew for leprosy was used for various diseases affecting the skin; also in verses 3, 6, 7, 11 and 27.

b. That is, about 750 pounds or about 340 kilograms

c. That is, about 150 pounds or about 69 kilograms

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

2 Kings 5:6 (NIV)

[FONT=&quot]The letter that he took to the king of Israel read: “With this letter I am sending my servant Naaman to you so that you may cure him of his leprosy.”[/FONT]

 

[Deade]

2 Kings 5:7 (NIV)
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As soon as the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his robes and said, “Am I God? Can I kill and bring back to life? Why does this fellow send someone to me to be cured of his leprosy? See how he is trying to pick a quarrel with me!”[/FONT]

 

[LOLOKGal]

[FONT=comic\ sans\ ms][2Ki 5:8 ESV] 8 But 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 come now to me, that he may know that there is a prophet in Israel."[/FONT]

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

2 Kings 5:9 (ESV)

[FONT=&quot]So Naaman came with his horses and chariots and stood at the door of Elisha's house.[/FONT]

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Kings 5:10 (NIV)
Elisha sent a messenger to say to him, "Go, wash yourself seven times in the Jordan, and your flesh will be restored and you will be cleansed."

 

[Deade]

2 Kings 5:11 (NIV)

[FONT=&quot]But Naaman went away angry and said, “I thought that he would surely come out to me and stand and call on the name of the [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Lord[/FONT][FONT=&quot] his God, wave his hand[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot] over the spot and cure me of my leprosy.[/FONT]

 

[LOLOKGal]

[FONT=comic\ sans\ ms][2Ki 5:12 ESV] 12 Are 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 went away in a rage.[/FONT]

 

[Deade]

2 Kings 5:13 (NIV)

[FONT=&quot]Naaman’s servants went to him and said, “My father,[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot] 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’!”[/FONT]

 

[slave]

[h=1](2 Kings 5:14): ...New American Standard Bible (NASB)[/h]14 So he went down and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child and he was clean.

 

[slave]

[h=1](2 Kings 5:15): ...New International Version (NIV)[/h]15 Then Naaman and all his attendants went back to the man of God. He stood before him and said, “Now I know that there is no God in all the world except in Israel. So please accept a gift from your servant.”

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Kings 5:16 (ESV)
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.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

2 Kings 5:17 (NIV)

[FONT=&quot]“If you will not,” said Naaman, “please let me, your servant, be given as much earth[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot] as a pair of mules can carry, for your servant will never again make burnt offerings and sacrifices to any other god but the [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Lord[/FONT][FONT=&quot].[/FONT]

 

[slave]

[h=1](2 Kings 5:18): ...New American Standard Bible (NASB)[/h]18 In this matter may the Lord pardon your servant: when my master 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 myself in the house of Rimmon, the Lordpardon your servant in this matter.”

 

[slave]

[h=1](2 Kings 5:19): ...New King James Version (NKJV)[/h]19 Then he said to him, “Go in peace.” So he departed from him a short distance.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

2 Kings 5:20 (NIV)

[FONT=&quot]Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said to himself, “My master was too easy on Naaman, this Aramean, by not accepting from him what he brought. As surely as the [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Lord[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot] lives, I will run after him and get something from him.”[/FONT]

 

[Deade]

2 Kings 5:21 (NIV)

[FONT=&quot]So Gehazi hurried after Naaman. When Naaman saw him running toward him, he got down from the chariot to meet him. “Is everything all right?” he asked.[/FONT]

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

2 Kings 5:22 (NIV)

[FONT=&quot]“Everything is all right,” Gehazi answered. “My master sent me to say, ‘Two young men from the company of the prophets have just come to me from the hill country of Ephraim. Please give them a talent[/FONT][FONT=&quot] of silver and two sets of clothing.’”[/FONT]