2 Kings 5: Naaman’s Leprosy Healed – Clear & Engaging Audio Bible Reading | God’s Grace, Naaman’s Pride, and the Prophet’s Wisdom

Listen to this clear and engaging audio recording of 2 Kings 5 and witness the miraculous story of Naaman’s leprosy being healed. Discover the themes of God’s grace, Naaman’s pride, and the prophet’s wisdom. Follow Naaman’s journey from being a commander of the Syrian army to a leper who was healed by the God of Israel. Perfect for study, reflection, or meditation, immerse yourself in this powerful chapter and let the Scriptures come alive.

2 KINGS 5 (NIV)

1 Now Naaman was commander of the army of the king of Aram. He was a great man
in the sight of his master and highly regarded, because through him the Lord
had given victory to Aram. He was a valiant soldier, but he had leprosy.

2 Now bands of raiders from Aram had gone out and had taken captive a young
girl from Israel, and she served Naaman’s wife.

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

4 Naaman went to his master and told him what the girl from Israel had said.

5
“By all means, go,” the king of Aram replied. “I will send a letter to the
king of Israel.” So Naaman left, taking with him ten talents of silver, six
thousand shekels of gold and ten sets of clothing.

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

7 As soon as the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his robes and said,
“Am I God? Can I kill and bring back to life? Why does this fellow send
someone to me to be cured of his leprosy? See how he is trying to pick a
quarrel with me!”

8 When Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his robes,
he sent him this message: “Why have you torn your robes? Have the man come to
me and he will know that there is a prophet in Israel.”

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

10 Elisha
sent a messenger to say to him, “Go, wash yourself seven times in the Jordan,
and your flesh will be restored and you will be cleansed.”

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

12 Are not Abana and Pharpar, the
rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Couldn’t I wash in
them and be cleansed?” So he turned and went off in a rage.

13 Naaman’s servants went to 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’!”

14 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.

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

16 The prophet answered, “As surely as the Lord lives, whom I serve, I will
not accept a thing.” And even though Naaman urged him, he refused.

17 “If you will not,” said Naaman, “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 Lord.

18 But may
the Lord 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—when I bow down in the temple of Rimmon, may the Lord forgive your
servant for this.”

19 “Go in peace,” Elisha said.
After Naaman had traveled some distance,

20 Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the
man of God, said to himself, “My master was too easy on Naaman, this Aramean,
by not accepting from him what he brought. As surely as the Lord lives, I will
run after him and get something from him.”

21 So Gehazi hurried after Naaman. When Naaman saw him running toward him, he
got down from the chariot to meet him. “Is everything all right?” he asked.

22 “Everything is all right,” Gehazi answered. “My master sent me to say, ‘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 of silver and two sets of
clothing.’”

23 “By all means, take two talents,” 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.

24 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.

25 When he went in and stood before his master, Elisha asked him, “Where have
you been, Gehazi?”
“Your servant didn’t go anywhere,” Gehazi answered.

26 But Elisha said to him, “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—or olive groves and vineyards, or flocks and herds, or male and female
slaves?

27 Naaman’s leprosy will cling to you and to your descendants
forever.” Then Gehazi went from Elisha’s presence and his skin was leprous—it
had become as white as snow.