2 Kings 5
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New American Standard Bible 1995

2 Kings 5:8-14

8It happened when Elisha 1the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, that he sent word to the king, saying, “Why have you torn your clothes? Now let him come to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.” 9So Naaman came with his horses and his chariots and stood at the doorway of the house of Elisha. 10Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, “2Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh will be restored to you and you will be clean.” 11But Naaman was furious and went away and said, “Behold, I 3thought, ‘He will surely come out to me and stand and call on the name of the Lord his God, and wave his hand over the place and cure the leper.’ 12Are not 4Abanah 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 5went away in a rage. 136Then his servants came near and spoke to him and said, “7My father, had the prophet told you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much more then, when he says to you, ‘Wash, and be clean’?” 14So he went down and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God; and 8his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child and 9he was clean.

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Notes

  1. 1. 2 Kings 5:8 1 Kin 12:22 ↩
  2. 2. 2 Kings 5:10 John 9:7 ↩
  3. 3. 2 Kings 5:11 Lit said ↩
  4. 4. 2 Kings 5:12 Another reading is Amanah ↩
  5. 5. 2 Kings 5:12 Prov 14:17; 16:32; 19:11 ↩
  6. 6. 2 Kings 5:13 1 Sam 28:23 ↩
  7. 7. 2 Kings 5:13 2 Kin 2:12; 6:21; 8:9 ↩
  8. 8. 2 Kings 5:14 2 Kin 5:10; Job 33:25 ↩
  9. 9. 2 Kings 5:14 Luke 4:27; 5:13 ↩

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