These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
2 Kings 5
Tanakh 27 verses
- 1 Now Naaman, captain of the host of the of Aram, was a great man with his master, and held in esteem, because by him had given victory unto Aram; he was also a mighty man of valour, but he was a leper.
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And the Arameans had gone out in bands, and had brought away captive out of the land of a little maid; and she waited on Naaman’s wife.
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And she said unto her mistress: ‘Would that my lord were with the that is in ! then would he recover him of his leprosy.’
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And he went in, and told his lord, saying: ‘Thus and thus said the maid that is of the land of .’
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- 5 And the of Aram said: ‘Go now, and I will send a letter unto the of .’ And he departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of raiment.
- 6 And he brought the letter to the of , saying: ‘And now when this letter is come unto thee, behold, I have sent Naaman my to thee, that thou mayest recover him of his leprosy.’
- 7 And it came to pass, when the of had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said: ‘Am I , to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? but consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh an occasion against me.’
- 8 And it was so, when the man of heard that the of had rent his clothes, that he sent to the , saying: ‘Wherefore hast thou rent thy clothes? let him come now to me, and he shall that there is a in .’
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So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariots, and stood at the door of the house of .
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- 10 And sent a messenger unto him, saying: ‘Go and wash in the seven times, and thy shall come back to thee, and thou shalt be .’
- 11 But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said: ‘Behold, I thought: He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the of his , and wave his hand over the place, and recover the leper.
- 12 Are not Amanah and Pharpar, the rivers of , better than all the waters of ? may I not wash in them, and be ?’ So he turned, and went away in a rage.
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And his servants came near, and spoke unto him, and said: ‘My father, if the had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee: Wash, and be ?’
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2 Kings 6:21 2 Kings 2:12 2 Kings 13:14 1 Samuel 25:14-17 Malachi 1:6 1 Kings 20:31 1 Corinthians 1:27 Matthew 23:9 1 Peter 3:21 Jeremiah 38:7-10 Revelation 7:14 John 13:8 2 Kings 5:10 Psalm 51:2 Isaiah 1:16 Genesis 41:43 Ephesians 5:26-27 Job 32:8-9 1 Corinthians 4:15 2 Kings 5:3 1 Kings 20:23 1 Corinthians 1:21 2 Kings 8:9 Acts 22:16 Psalm 51:7 Hebrews 10:22 Titus 3:5 - 14 Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in the , according to the saying of the man of ; and his came back like unto the of a little child, and he was .
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And he returned to the man of , he and all his company, and came, and stood before him; and he said: ‘Behold now, I that there is no in all the earth, but in ; now therefore, I pray thee, take a present of thy .’
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- 16 But he said: ‘As liveth, before whom I stand, I will receive none.’ And he urged him to take it; but he refused.
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And Naaman said: ‘If not, yet I pray thee let there be given to thy two mules’ burden of earth; for thy will henceforth offer neither burnt- nor unto other Elohims, but unto .
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In this thing pardon thy : when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to there, and he leaneth on my hand, and I prostrate myself in the house of Rimmon, when I prostrate myself in the house of Rimmon, pardon thy in this thing.’
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- 19 And he said unto him: ‘Go in .’ So he departed from him some way.
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But Gehazi, the of the man of , said: ‘Behold, my master hath spared this Naaman the Aramean, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought; as liveth, I will surely run after him, and take somewhat of him.’
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2 Kings 4:12 Exodus 20:7 2 Kings 4:36 2 Kings 6:31 2 Kings 4:31 Exodus 20:17 John 13:2 Luke 16:8 Acts 5:2 Habakkuk 2:9 1 Samuel 14:39 Luke 12:15 1 Timothy 6:9-11 John 6:70 2 Timothy 4:10 Acts 8:18-19 Matthew 10:4 Titus 1:7 2 Peter 2:14-15 Proverbs 26:16 Psalm 10:3 John 12:5-6 1 Peter 5:2 Jeremiah 22:17 -
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So Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman saw one running after him, he alighted from the chariot to meet him, and said: ‘Is all well?’
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- 22 And he said: ‘All is well. My master hath sent me, saying: Behold, even now there are come to me from the hill-country of two young men of the sons of the prophets; give them, I pray thee, a of silver, and two changes of raiment.’
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And Naaman said: ‘Be content, take two talents.’ And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of raiment, and laid them upon two of his servants; and they bore them before him.
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And when he came to the hill, he took them from their hand, and deposited them in the house; and he let the men go, and they departed.
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- 25 But he went in, and stood before his master. And said unto him: ‘Whence comest thou, Gehazi?’ And he said: ‘Thy went no whither.’
- 26 And he said unto him: ‘Went not my [with thee], when the man turned back from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and oliveyards and vineyards, and sheep and oxen, and men-servants and maid-servants?
- 27 The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever.’ And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.