BRAGADAYJAH 1071

BRAGADAYJAH 1071
Naaman cleansed of his leprosy.
And so it happened that when Elisha heard that the king of Israel had rent his clothes, and said, “Am I God to kill and to make alive,” and his reaction and his words at the king of Syria’s request to him whereby he was upset, he sent to the king saying, “Why has thou rent thy clothes?” Let him come now to me and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.  So Naaman went to Elisha with his chariots and horses and stood at the door of Elisha’s house. And Elisha sent a messenger unto him telling him to go wash in the Jordan seven times and his flesh would come again to him and he would be clean. But Naaman was upset and went away and said, “Behold I thought he would surely come out to me and stand and call on the name of the LORD his God and strike his hand over me and cleanse me of the leprosy. Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers in Damascus better than all the waters of Israel? May I not wash in them and be clean?” So he turned and sent away in a rage. But Naaman’s servant asked him if he would he not have done what the man of God said to him if he had asked him to do some great thing, so, he reasoned with his master, how much more simple it was if he said go wash seven times?  So Naaman went and dipped himself into the Jordan seven times and his flesh returned to him as if he were a little child. And he was cleansed of his leprosy.  

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