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December 14, 2025

2 Kings 5:1-19a
Naaman, commander of the army of the king of
Syria, was a great man with his master and in high
favor, because by him the Lord had given victory
to Syria. He was a mighty man of valor, but he was
a leper. 2 Now the Syrians on one of their raids had
carried off a little girl from the land of Israel, and
she worked in the service of Naaman's wife. 3 She
said to her mistress, “Would that my lord were with
the prophet who is in Samaria! He would cure him
of his leprosy.”​
4 So Naaman went in and told his lord, “Thus and
so spoke the girl from the land of Israel.” 5 And
the king of Syria said, “Go now, and I will send a
letter to the king of Israel.” So he went, taking
with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels
of gold, and ten changes of clothing. 6 And he
brought the letter to the king of Israel, which read,
“When this letter reaches you, know that I have
sent to you Naaman my servant, that you may cure
him of his leprosy.” ​
7 And when the king of Israel read the letter, he
tore his clothes and said, “Am I God, to kill and to
make alive, that this man sends word to me to cure
a man of his leprosy? Only consider, and see how
he is seeking a quarrel with me.” 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.”​
9 So Naaman came with his horses and chariots
and stood at the door of Elisha's house. 10 And
Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, “Go and
wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh
shall be restored, and you shall be clean.” 11 But
Naaman was angry and went away, saying,
“Behold, I thought that he would surely come out
to me and stand and call upon the name of the
Lord his God, and wave his hand over the place
and cure the leper. ​
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. 13 But his
servants came near and said to him, “My father, it
is a great word the prophet has spoken to you;
will you not do it? Has he actually said to you,
‘Wash, and be clean’?”​
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. 15 Then
he returned to the man of God, he and all his
company, and he came and stood before him.
And he said, “Behold, I know that there is no
God in all the earth but in Israel; so accept now a
present from your servant.” ​
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, “If
not, please let there be given to your servant two
mule loads of earth, for from now on your
servant will not offer burnt offering or sacrifice
to any god but the Lord.18 In this matter may the
Lord pardon your servant: when my master goes
into the house of Rimmon to worship there,
leaning on my arm, and I bow myself in the
house of Rimmon, when I bow myself in the
house of Rimmon, the Lord pardon your servant
in this matter.”​
19 He said to him, “Go in peace.”​