2 Kings 5:1-7

Naaman Healed of Leprosy

1 aNaaman, bcommander of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master and in high favor, because by him the Lord had given victory to Syria. He was a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.
Leprosy was a term for several skin diseases; see Leviticus 13
2Now the Syrians on done of their raids had carried off a little girl from the land of Israel, and she worked in the service of Naaman’s wife. 3She said to her mistress, “Would that my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! He would cure him of his leprosy.” 4So Naaman went in and told his lord, “Thus and so spoke the girl from the land of Israel.” 5And the king of Syria said, “Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel.”

So he went, etaking with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels
A  talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms; a  shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams
of gold, and ten gchanges of clothing.
6And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, which read, “When this letter reaches you, know that I have sent to you Naaman my servant, that you may cure him of his leprosy.” 7And when the king of Israel read the letter, hhe tore his clothes and said, i“Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends word to me to cure a man of his leprosy? Only jconsider, and see how he is seeking a quarrel with me.”

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