Douay Rheims Original ↷
2 Kings 5 📜 📕 ↷
Naaman Cured of Leprosy
1 NAAMAN the General of the warfare of the king of Syria, was a great man with his lord, & honourable: for by him our Lord gave health to Syria: and he was a valiant man and rich, but a leper.📜💬📚
2 Moreover out of Syria there were come forth robbers, and had led away captive out of the Land of Israel a little girl, which waited upon the wife of Naaman.📜💬📚
3 Who said to her mistress: I would my lord had been with the prophet, that is in Samaria: surely he would have cured him from the leprosy, which he hath.📜💬📚
4 Naaman therefore went in to his lord, and told him saying: Thus and thus hath the wench of the Land of Israel spoken.📜💬📚
5 And the king of Syria said to him: Go, & I will send letters to the king of Israel. Who when he was set forward, & had taken with him ten talents of silver, & six thousand pieces of gold, & ten change of raiment,📜💬📚
6 he brought the letters to the king of Israel, in these words: When thou shalt receive this letter, know that I have sent to thee Naaman my servant, that thou mayest cure him of his leprosy.📜💬📚
7 And when the king of Israel had read the letters, he rent his garments, & said: Am I God, that I can kill, and give life, because this man hath sent to me, that I should cure a man of his leprosy? Mark, and see that he seeketh occasions against me.📜💬📚
8 Which when Eliseus the man of God had heard, to wit, that the king of Israel had rent his garments, he sent to him, saying: Why hast thou rent thy garments? Let him come to me, & let him know that there is a prophet in Israel📜💬📚
9 Naaman therefore came with horses & chariots: & stood at the door of the house of Eliseus:📜💬📚
10 and Eliseus sent a messenger to him, saying: Go & be washed seven times in Jordan, and thy flesh shall receive health, & thou shalt be clean.📜💬📚
11 Naaman being angry departed, saying: I thought he would come out to me, and standing would invocate the name of the Lord his God, and touch with his hand the place of the leprosy, and cure me.📜💬📚
12 What, are not Abana and Pharphar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel, that I may be washed in them, and be made clean? Therefore when he had returned himself, & went away with indignation,📜💬📚
13 his servants came unto him, & spake to him. Father, & if the Prophet had said a great thing to thee, certes, thou shouldest have done it: how much more whereas now he said unto thee: Be washed, and thou shalt be clean?📜💬📚
14 He went down, and washed in Jordan seven times according to the word of the man of God, and his flesh was restored, as the flesh of a little child, and he was made clean.📜💬📚
Gehazi's Greed and Leprosy
15 And returning to the man of God with all his train, he came, and stood before him, & said: In very deed I know that there is no other God in all the earth, but only in Israel. I beseech thee therefore to take a benediction of thy servant.📜💬📚
16 But he answered: Our Lord liveth, before whom I stand, I will not take it. And when he would have forced him, he did in no wise agree.📜💬📚
17 And Naaman said: As thou wilt, but I beseech thee: grant unto me thy servant, that I may take of the earth the burden of two mules: for thy servant will no more make holocaust or victim to strange gods, but to the Lord.📜💬📚
18 But this only is it, for which thou shalt beseech the Lord for thy servant: when my master shall go into the temple of Remmon, to adore, and he leaning upon my hand, if I shall adore in the temple of Remmon, he adoring in the same place, that the Lord pardon me thy servant for this thing.📜💬📚
19 Who said to him: Go in peace. He therefore went from him in the spring time of the earth.📜💬📚
20 And Giezi the servant of the man of God said: My master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, that he took not of him the things which he brought: Our Lord liveth, I will run after him, and will take some thing of him.📜💬📚
21 And Giezi followed at the back of Naaman: whom when he saw running toward him, he lept down from his chariot to meet him, and said: Are all things well?📜💬📚
22 And he said: Well. My master hath sent me to thee, saying: Even now there are come to me two young men from mount Ephraim, of the children of the Prophets: give them a talent of silver, and two change of raiment.📜💬📚
23 And Naaman said: It is better that thou take two talents. And he forced him, and bound the two talents of silver in two bags, and the double raiment, and laid it upon two of his servants, who also carried it before him.📜💬📚
24 And when he was come now in the evening, he took it out of their hand, and laid it up in the house, and dismissed the men, and they departed.📜💬📚
25 And himself going in stood before his master. And Eliseus said: From whence comest thou Giezi? Who answered: Thy servant hath not gone any whither.📜💬📚
26 But he said: Was not my heart present, when the man returned out of his chariot to meet thee? Now therefore thou hast received silver, and taken raiment, to buy olivets, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and servants, and handmaids.📜💬📚
27 But the leprosy also of Naama shall cleave to thee, and to thy seed, for ever. And he went out from him a leper as it were snow.📜💬📚
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