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The mother of the boy said, "As the Lord lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you." So Elisha got up and followed her.

Gehazi went on before them and laid the stick on the boy's face. But there was no sound or anything to show that the boy was alive. So Gehazi returned to meet Elisha, and told him, "The boy is not awake."

So he went in and shut the door behind the two of them, and prayed to the Lord.

Elisha called Gehazi and said, "Call this Shunammite." So he called her. When she came to him, he said, "Take up your son."

So he put it in front of them. And they ate and had some left, as the word of the Lord had said.

So Naaman went in and told his king, "This is what the girl from the land of Israel said."

The king of Syria said, "Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel." So Naaman went and took with him silver weighing as much as ten men, 6,000 pieces of gold, and ten changes of clothes.

Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes. So he sent word to the king, saying, "Why have you torn your clothes? Let him come to me. Then he will know that there is a man of God in Israel."

So Naaman came with his horses and his war-wagons, and stood at the door of Elisha's house.

Are not Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them and be clean?" So he turned and went away very angry.

So Naaman went down into the Jordan River seven times, as the man of God had told him. And his flesh was made as well as the flesh of a little child. He was clean.

Then Naaman returned to the man of God with all those who were with him. He came and stood in front of Elisha and said, "See, now I know that there is no God in all the earth but in Israel. So I ask you now to take a gift from your servant."

And Elisha said to him, "Go in peace." So Naaman went away from him a short way.

So Gehazi went after Naaman. When Naaman saw someone running after him, he stepped off the war-wagon to meet him, and said, "Is all well?"

So now the bad skin disease will be upon you and your children forever." And Gehazi went away from Elisha with a bad skin disease. He was as white as snow.

Let us go to the Jordan and each of us cut down a tree there. And let us make a place for us to live there." So Elisha said, "Go."

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

He said, "Pick it up." So his servant put out his hand and took it.

The king of Israel sent men to the place where the man of God said there would be danger. So he saved himself there more than once or twice.

So he said, "Go and see where Elisha is, that I may send men to take him." And he was told, "See, he is in Dothan."