Popular Bible Verses from II Kings 5

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Now Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Syria, was a great and exalted man with his master because the LORD had given deliverance to Syria by him. He was also a mighty man, but a leper.

Then Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, “Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored to you, and you shall be clean.”

Then he went down and dipped seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God. And his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little boy, and he was clean.

But Naaman was angry, and went away. And he said, “Behold, I said within myself, ‘He will surely come out to me and stand and call on the name of the LORD his God and strike his hand over the place and heal the leper.’

Then his servants came near and spoke to him and said, “My father, if the prophet had told you to do a great thing, would you not have done it? How much rather then, when he says to you, ‘Wash and be clean’?”

And she said to her mistress, “I wish my lord were with the prophet in Samaria, for he would heal him of his leprosy!”