And he called Gehazi, and said, "Call this Shunammite."
So he called her. And when she was come to him, he said, "Take up thy son."
Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground; and she took up her son, and went out.
How a Great Soldier Was Healed of Leprosy.
Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him the Lord had given victory to Syria: he was also a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper. And the Syrians had gone out in bands, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman's wife.
And she said to her mistress, "Would God my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! then would he heal him of his leprosy."
And one went in, and told his lord, saying, "Thus and thus said the maid that is of the land of Israel."
And the king of Syria said, "Go now, go, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel."
And he departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of raiment. And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, "And now when this letter is come to thee, behold, [{144}] I have sent Naaman my servant to thee, that thou mayest heal him of his leprosy."
And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, "Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send to me to recover a man of his leprosy? but consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me."