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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2KI.5.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">When Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his robes, he sent him this message: &#8220;Why have you torn your robes? Have the man come to me and he will know that there is a prophet in Israel.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2KI.5.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">So Naaman went with his horses and chariots and stopped at the door of Elisha&#8217;s house. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2KI.5.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Elisha sent a messenger to say to him, &#8220;Go, wash yourself seven times in the Jordan, and your flesh will be restored and you will be cleansed.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2KI.5.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2KI.5.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">But Naaman went away angry and said, &#8220;I thought that he would surely come out to me and stand and call on the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> his God, wave his hand over the spot and cure me of my leprosy. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2KI.5.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Couldn&#8217;t I wash in them and be cleansed?&#8221; So he turned and went off in a rage.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2KI.5.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2KI.5.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Naaman&#8217;s servants went to him and said, &#8220;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, &#8216;Wash and be cleansed&#8217;!&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2KI.5.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">So he went down and dipped himself in the Jordan seven times, as the man of God had told him, and his flesh was restored and became clean like that of a young boy.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2KI.5.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2KI.5.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Then Naaman and all his attendants went back to the man of God. He stood before him and said, &#8220;Now I know that there is no God in all the world except in Israel. So please accept a gift from your servant.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2KI.5.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2KI.5.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The prophet answered, &#8220;As surely as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> lives, whom I serve, I will not accept a thing.&#8221; And even though Naaman urged him, he refused.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2KI.5.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2KI.5.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;If you will not,&#8221; said Naaman, &#8220;please let me, your servant, be given as much earth as a pair of mules can carry, for your servant will never again make burnt offerings and sacrifices to any other god but the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2KI.5.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But may the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> forgive your servant for this one thing: When my master enters the temple of Rimmon to bow down and he is leaning on my arm and I have to bow there also&#8212;when I bow down in the temple of Rimmon, may the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> forgive your servant for this.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2KI.5.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2KI.5.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">&#8220;Go in peace,&#8221; Elisha said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2KI.5.19"><span class="content">After Naaman had traveled some distance, </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2KI.5.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said to himself, &#8220;My master was too easy on Naaman, this Aramean, by not accepting from him what he brought. As surely as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> lives, I will run after him and get something from him.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2KI.5.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2KI.5.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">So Gehazi hurried after Naaman. When Naaman saw him running toward him, he got down from the chariot to meet him. &#8220;Is everything all right?&#8221; he asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2KI.5.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2KI.5.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;Everything is all right,&#8221; Gehazi answered. &#8220;My master sent me to say, &#8216;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</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">5:22 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 75 pounds or about 34 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content"> of silver and two sets of clothing.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2KI.5.22"></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2KI.5.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">&#8220;By all means, take two talents,&#8221; said Naaman. He urged Gehazi to accept them, and then tied up the two talents of silver in two bags, with two sets of clothing. He gave them to two of his servants, and they carried them ahead of Gehazi. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="2KI.5.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">When Gehazi came to the hill, he took the things from the servants and put them away in the house. He sent the men away and they left.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="2KI.5.24"></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="2KI.5.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">When he went in and stood before his master, Elisha asked him, &#8220;Where have you been, Gehazi?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="2KI.5.25"><span class="content">&#8220;Your servant didn&#8217;t go anywhere,&#8221; Gehazi answered.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="2KI.5.25"></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="2KI.5.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">But Elisha said to him, &#8220;Was not my spirit with you when the man got down from his chariot to meet you? Is this the time to take money or to accept clothes&#8212;or olive groves and vineyards, or flocks and herds, or male and female slaves? </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="2KI.5.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Naaman&#8217;s leprosy will cling to you and to your descendants forever.&#8221; Then Gehazi went from Elisha&#8217;s presence and his skin was leprous&#8212;it had become as white as snow.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2KI.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The company of the prophets said to Elisha, &#8220;Look, the place where we meet with you is too small for us. </span></span></div>
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