2 Kings 5:5-7

Good News Translation

⁵ The king said, “Go to the king of Israel and take this letter to him.”

So Naaman set out, taking thirty thousand pieces of silver, six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of fine clothes. ⁶ The letter that he took read: “This letter will introduce my officer Naaman. I want you to cure him of his disease.”

⁷ When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes in dismay and exclaimed, “How can the king of Syria expect me to cure this man? Does he think that I am God,^[a] with the power of life and death? It's plain that he is trying to start a quarrel with me!”