When Elisha, the man of God, heard the king of Israel had rent his clothes- he sent to him saying, why did you tear your clothes? Come to me now and know there is a prophet in Israel. So Naaman came with horses and chariots to Elisha's door...
And Elisha sent out a messenger saying, go dip yourself in the Jordan 7x and your flesh will be restored and clean. (Naaman had leprosy)
and he was wroth with Elisha's response. So he went away mad. He thought surely Elisha would have come out to him...
and he was wroth with Elisha's response. So he went away mad. He thought surely Elisha would have come out to him...
He thought Elisha would have stood and called on the name of the LORD his God and used his hands to make him recover. He said, are not the Abana and Pharpar rivers of Damascus better than all the waters of Israel? Why can't I wash in them and be clean?...
So he turned and went away in a rage. But then his servants came to him and said, My father, if the prophet had told you to do something great, would you not have done it? How much easier is it then when he says, 'wash and be clean'?
Then he went down and dipped himself 7x in the Jordan according to the saying of the man of God, and his flesh became like the flesh of a little child and he was clean. And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company came and stood before him and said...
Behold, now I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel.
2 Kings 5
2 Kings 5
