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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Naaman (Syrian living at the time of Divided Monarchy)
Commander of the Aramean army, a great man, and a leper. A captured Israelite girl told his household about a prophet in Samaria. Elisha did not even come out, only sent word to wash seven times in the Jordan, and Naaman almost went home angry before his servants talked him round. He came out of the water clean, and Gehazi, who ran after him for a payment, got his leprosy.
Commander of the Aramean army, a great man, and a leper. A captured Israelite girl told his household about a prophet in Samaria. Elisha did not even come out, only sent word to wash seven times in the Jordan, and Naaman almost went home angry before his servants talked him round. He came out of the water clean, and Gehazi, who ran after him for a payment, got his leprosy.
Naaman was the commander of the Aramean army, a respected and successful general who also had leprosy, and it was a captured Israelite servant girl who first told him a prophet in Samaria could heal him. Naaman nearly walked away insulted when Elisha simply sent word for him to wash seven times in the Jordan River rather than perform some dramatic ritual in person, but his servants talked him into trying it, and he came out of the water completely healed. He tried to pay Elisha, who refused any reward, and Naaman left declaring his new faith in Israel's God, while Elisha's own servant Gehazi secretly chased Naaman down for a payment and was struck with the leprosy Naaman had just been cured of.
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- 2 Kings 5:1
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- 2 Kings 5:27
- Luke 4:27
