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Naaman washed seven times
Naaman, an army commander with leprosy, was healed after washing seven times in the Jordan as Elisha told him. 2 Kings 5:9–14
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A young Israelite girl serving Naaman's wife said the prophet in Samaria could heal him. Elisha sent word: wash in the Jordan seven times. Naaman was angry but his servants persuaded him. 2 Kings 5:1–13
"He went down and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan... and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child." 2 Kings 5:14
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2 Kings 5:9–14 WEB
9So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariots, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha. 10Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, “Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall come again to you, and you shall be clean.” 11But Naaman was angry, and went away and said, “Behold, I thought, ‘He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the LORD his God, and wave his hand over the place, and heal the leper.’ 12Aren’t Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Couldn’t I wash in them and be clean?” So he turned and went away in a rage. 13His servants came near and spoke to him, and said, “My father, if the prophet had asked you do some great thing, wouldn’t you have done it? How much rather then, when he says to you, ‘Wash, and be clean’?” 14Then 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.
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Naaman was sick. A young servant girl told him about God's prophet. He washed in the Jordan River seven times and was healed!