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So Naaman went down and dipped himself in the Jordan seven times, according to the command of the man of God. Then his skin was restored and became like the skin of a small boy, and he was clean.

So he said to him, "Go in peace." After Naaman had traveled a short distance from Elisha,

So Gehazi pursued Naaman. When Naaman saw someone running after him, he got down from the chariot to meet him and asked, "Is everything all right?"

Therefore, Naaman's skin disease will cling to you and your descendants forever." So Gehazi went out from his presence diseased—white as snow.

So he went with them, and when they came to the Jordan, they cut down trees.

Then he said, "Pick it up." So he reached out and took it.

Consequently, the king of Israel sent word to the place the man of God had told him about. The man of God repeatedly warned the king, so the king would be on his guard.

So the king said, "Go and see where he is, so I can send men to capture him." When he was told, "Elisha is in Dothan,"

When the servant of the man of God got up early and went out, he discovered an army with horses and chariots surrounding the city. So he asked Elisha, "Oh, my master, what are we to do?"

Then Elisha prayed, " Lord , please open his eyes and let him see." So the Lord opened the servant's eyes. He looked and saw that the mountain was covered with horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.

When the Arameans came against him, Elisha prayed to the Lord , "Please strike this nation with blindness." So He struck them with blindness, according to Elisha's word.

When they entered Samaria, Elisha said, " Lord , open these men's eyes and let them see." So the Lord opened their eyes. They looked and discovered they were in Samaria.

Elisha replied, "Don't kill them. Do you kill those you have captured with your sword or your bow? Set food and water in front of them so they can eat and drink and go to their master."

So he prepared a great feast for them. When they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. The Aramean raiders did not come into Israel's land again.

So there was a great famine in Samaria, and they continued the siege against it until a donkey's head sold for 80 silver shekels, and a cup of dove's dung sold for five silver shekels.

So we boiled my son and ate him, and I said to her the next day, ‘Give up your son, and we will eat him,' but she has hidden her son."

He announced, "May God punish me and do so severely if the head of Elisha son of Shaphat remains on his shoulders today."

If we say, ‘Let's go into the city,' we will die there because the famine is in the city, but if we sit here, we will also die. So now, come on. Let's go to the Arameans' camp. If they let us live, we will live; if they kill us, we will die."

So the diseased men got up at twilight to go to the Arameans' camp. When they came to the camp's edge, they discovered that there was not a single man there,

So they had gotten up and fled at twilight, abandoning their tents, horses, and donkeys. The camp was intact, and they had fled for their lives.