NARRATOR: Naaman was a great warrior. He was a great fighter for Syria but he also had leprosy.
NARRATOR: Leprosy is a disease where you would get sores that would eat away your skin.
NARRATOR: Leprosy has no cure so anyone who got it would have to go and
NARRATOR: live alone with other lepers so they would not give it to someone else.
NARRATOR: Eventually the person would die from this disease.
NARRATOR: Naaman's wife had a servant girl who had been captured from the Israelite by the Syrian army.
I know of a prophet in Samaria that can heal Naaman of his leprosy.
NARRATOR: Naaman told the king what the girl had said. The king of Syria told him
Go! And I will send a letter to the king of Isreal.
NARRATOR: Naaman went and took with him ten talents of silver, six thousand peices of
NARRATOR: gold, and ten changes of clothes. The letter said,
"Now when this letter has come unto you, behold, I have sent my servant Naaman to
you so that you may heal him of his leprosy".
NARRATOR: The king of Isreal was not happy with this letter.
Am I God? To kill and to make alive?
That this man sends to me to recover a man of his leprsy?
How can I cure his leprsy? See how he seeks a war aginst me.
NARRATOR: Elisha the Prophet hear of this and sent a letter to the King
of Iseral. The letter said,
Let Naaman come to me and he shall know that their is a prophet in Isreal.
NARRATOR: Naaman when to Elisha's house. Elisha sent a messanger to answer the door.
NARRATOR: Elisha sent a messenger to him.
Go and wash in the Jordan river seven times and your skin will come again to you and you will be clean and well.
NARRATOR: Naaman did not like this.
I thought he would come out to me and stand and call on the name of the Lord his God
and strike his hand over me and recover me of this leprsy.
Is not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel?
Why can I not wash in them, and be clean?
NARRATOR: Naaman was not happy when he left. His servant came to him and said,
My father, if the prophet had wanted you to do some great thing wouldn't you
have do it? How much rather than when he said to the, 'wash and be clean'.
NARRATOR: So Naaman when down to the river and washed himself
NARRATOR: seven times like the prophet said. When he came up, he was clean.
NARRATOR: Because the little maid girl was a servant to Naaman, he was healed.
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