2 Kings

乃缦得医治

1亚兰王的元帅乃缦在他主人面前为尊为大，因耶和华曾借他使亚兰人得胜；他又是大能的勇士，只是长了大麻风。

2先前亚兰人成群地出去，从以色列国掳了一个小女子，这女子就服事乃缦的妻。

3她对主母说：「巴不得我主人去见撒马利亚的先知，必能治好他的大麻风。」

4乃缦进去，告诉他主人说，以色列国的女子如此如此说。

5亚兰王说：「你可以去，我也达信于以色列王。」于是乃缦带银子十他连得，金子六千舍客勒，衣裳十套，就去了；

6且带信给以色列王，信上说：「我打发臣仆乃缦去见你，你接到这信，就要治好他的大麻风。」

7以色列王看了信就撕裂衣服，说：「我岂是 神，能使人死使人活呢？这人竟打发人来，叫我治好他的大麻风。你们看一看，这人何以寻隙攻击我呢？」

8神人以利沙听见以色列王撕裂衣服，就打发人去见王，说：「你为什么撕了衣服呢？可使那人到我这里来，他就知道以色列中有先知了。」

9于是，乃缦带着车马到了以利沙的家，站在门前。

10以利沙打发一个使者，对乃缦说：「你去在约旦河中沐浴七回，你的肉就必复原，而得洁净。」

11乃缦却发怒走了，说：「我想他必定出来见我，站着求告耶和华—他 神的名，在患处以上摇手，治好这大麻风。

12大马士革的河亚罢拿和法珥法岂不比以色列的一切水更好吗？我在那里沐浴不得洁净吗？」于是气忿忿地转身去了。

13他的仆人进前来，对他说：「我父啊，先知若吩咐你做一件大事，你岂不做吗？何况说你去沐浴而得洁净呢？」

14于是乃缦下去，照着神人的话，在约旦河里沐浴七回；他的肉复原，好像小孩子的肉，他就洁净了。

15乃缦带着一切跟随他的人，回到神人那里，站在他面前，说：「如今我知道，除了以色列之外，普天下没有 神。现在求你收点仆人的礼物。」

16以利沙说：「我指着所事奉永生的耶和华起誓，我必不受。」乃缦再三地求他，他却不受。

17乃缦说：「你若不肯受，请将两骡子驮的土赐给仆人。从今以后，仆人必不再将燔祭或平安祭献与别神，只献给耶和华。

18惟有一件事，愿耶和华饶恕你仆人：我主人进临门庙叩拜的时候，我用手搀他在临门庙，我也屈身。我在临门庙屈身的这事，愿耶和华饶恕我。」

19以利沙对他说：「你可以平平安安地回去！」 乃缦就离开他去了；走了不远，

20神人以利沙的仆人基哈西心里说：「我主人不愿从这亚兰人乃缦手里受他带来的礼物，我指着永生的耶和华起誓，我必跑去追上他，向他要些。」

21于是基哈西追赶乃缦。乃缦看见有人追赶，就急忙下车迎着他，说：「都平安吗？」

22说：「都平安。我主人打发我来说：『刚才有两个少年人，是先知门徒，从以法莲山地来见我，请你赐他们一他连得银子，两套衣裳。』」

23乃缦说：「请受二他连得」；再三地请受，便将二他连得银子装在两个口袋里，又将两套衣裳交给两个仆人；他们就在基哈西前头抬着走。

24到了山冈，基哈西从他们手中接过来，放在屋里，打发他们回去。

25基哈西进去，站在他主人面前。以利沙问他说：「基哈西你从哪里来？」回答说：「仆人没有往哪里去。」

26以利沙对他说：「那人下车转回迎你的时候，我的心岂没有去呢？这岂是受银子、衣裳、买橄榄园、葡萄园、牛羊、仆婢的时候呢？

27因此，乃缦的大麻风必沾染你和你的后裔，直到永远。」基哈西从以利沙面前退出去，就长了大麻风，像雪那样白。

Naaman Cured of Leprosy

1Now Naaman, the commander of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man in his master’s sight and highly regarded, for through him the LORD had given victory to Aram. And he was a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.

2At this time the Arameans had gone out in bands and had taken a young girl from the land of Israel, and she was serving Naaman’s wife.

3She said to her mistress, “If only my master would go to the prophet who is in Samaria, he would cure him of his leprosy.”

4And Naaman went and told his master what the girl from the land of Israel had said.

5“Go now,” said the king of Aram, “and I will send you with a letter to the king of Israel.” So Naaman departed, taking with him ten talents of silver,six thousand shekels of gold,and ten sets of clothing.

6And the letter that he took to the king of Israel stated: “With this letter I am sending my servant Naaman, so that you may cure him of his leprosy.”

7When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and asked, “Am I God, killing and giving life, that this man expects me to cure a leper? Surely you can see that he is seeking a quarrel with me!”

8Now when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, he sent a message to the king: “Why have you torn your clothes? Please let the man come to me, and he will know that there is a prophet in Israel.”

9So Naaman came with his horses and chariots and stood at the door of Elisha’s house.

10Then Elisha sent him a messenger, who said, “Go and wash yourself seven times in the Jordan, and your flesh will be restored, and you will be clean.”

11But Naaman went away angry, saying, “I thought that he would surely come out, stand and call on the name of the LORD his God, and wave his hand over the spot to cure my leprosy.

12Are not the Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not have washed in them and been cleansed?” So he turned and went away in a rage.

13Naaman’s servants, however, approached him and said, “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, ‘Wash and be cleansed’?”

14So Naaman went down and dipped himself in the Jordan seven times, according to the word of the man of God, and his flesh was restored and became like that of a little child, and he was clean.

Gehazi’s Greed and Leprosy

15Then Naaman and all his attendants went back to the man of God, stood before him, and declared, “Now I know for sure that there is no God in all the earth except in Israel. So please accept a gift from your servant.”

16But Elisha replied, “As surely as the LORD lives, before whom I stand, I will not accept it.” And although Naaman urged him to accept it, he refused.

17“If you will not,” said Naaman, “please let me, your servant, be given as much soil as a pair of mules can carry. For your servant will never again make a burnt offering or a sacrifice to any other god but the LORD.

18Yet may the LORD forgive your servant this one thing: When my master goes into the temple of Rimmon to worship there, and he leans on my arm, and I bow down in the temple of Rimmon, may the LORD forgive your servant in this matter.”

19“Go in peace,” said Elisha. But after Naaman had traveled a short distance,

20Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “Look, my master has spared this Aramean, Naaman, by not accepting what he brought. As surely as the LORD lives, I will run after him and get something from him.”

21So Gehazi pursued Naaman. And when Naaman saw him running toward him, he got down from the chariot to meet him and asked, “Is everything all right?”

22“Everything is all right,” Gehazi replied. “My master has sent me to say, ‘Look, two young men from the sons of the prophets have just now come to me from the hill country of Ephraim. Please give them a talent of silverand two sets of clothing.’”

23But Naaman insisted, “Please, take two talents.” And he urged Gehazi to accept them. Then he tied up two talents of silver in two bags along with two sets of clothing and gave them to two of his servants, who carried them ahead of Gehazi.

24When Gehazi came to the hill, he took the gifts from the servants and stored them in the house. Then he dismissed the men, and they departed.

25When Gehazi went in and stood before his master, Elisha asked him, “Gehazi, where have you been?” “Your servant did not go anywhere,” he replied.

26But Elisha questioned him, “Did not my spirit go with you when the man got down from his chariot to meet you? Is this the time to accept money and clothing, olive groves and vineyards, sheep and oxen, menservants and maidservants?

27Therefore, the leprosy of Naaman will cling to you and your descendants forever!” And as Gehazi left his presence, he was leprous—as white as snow.