New English Translation

2 Kings 5:1-4 New English Translation (NET)

1. Now Naaman, the commander of the king of Syria’s army, was esteemed and respected by his master, for through him the Lord had given Syria military victories. But this great warrior had a skin disease.

2. Raiding parties went out from Syria and took captive from the land of Israel a young girl, who became a servant to Naaman’s wife.

3. She told her mistress, “If only my master were in the presence of the prophet who is in Samaria! Then he would cure him of his skin disease.”

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