2 Kings 5:14
12 Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage.
13 And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?
Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
15 And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him: and he said, Behold, now I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel: now therefore, I pray thee, take a blessing of thy servant.
16 But he said, As the LORD liveth, before whom I stand, I will receive none. And he urged him to take it; but he refused.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- So Naaman went down and dipped himself in the Jordan seven times, according to the word of the man of God, and his flesh was restored and became like that of a little child, and he was clean.
- KJV
- Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
- WEB
- Then went he down and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
- ASV
- Then went he down, and dipped [himself] seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
- DARBY
- Then he went down, and plunged himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God. And his flesh became again like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
- BLB
- And he went down and dipped in the Jordan seven times, according to the saying of the man of God. And his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
- ÅB
- Da dro han ned og dukket seg syv ganger i Jordan etter den Guds manns ord; og hans kjøtt ble friskt som på en liten gutt, og han ble ren.
- OTB
- Så gikk han ned og dukket seg syv ganger i Jordan, som instruert av Guds mann; og hans kjøtt ble gjenopprettet som en ung gutts, og han var ren.
- B1930
- Da drog han ned og dukket sig syv ganger i Jordan efter den Guds manns ord; og hans kjøtt blev friskt som på en liten gutt, og han blev ren.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 33:25
His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s: he shall return to the days of his youth:
Read in contextLuke 4:27
And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian.
Read in contextLuke 5:13
And he put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will: be thou clean. And immediately the leprosy departed from him.
Read in contextZechariah 14:8
And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.
Read in contextJohn 2:5
His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it.
Read in context2 Kings 5:10
And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean.
Read in contextEzekiel 47:1–9
Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house; and, behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward: for the forefront of the house stood toward the east, and the waters came down from under from the right side of the house, at the south side of the altar.
Read in contextJob 31:13
If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;
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