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2 Kings 5:12-14
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2 Kings 5:12-14
International Standard Version
12 Aren’t the Abana and Pharpar rivers in Damascus better than all of the water in Israel? Couldn’t I just bathe in them and become clean?” So he turned away and left, filled with anger.
13 But then his servants approached him and spoke with him. They said, “My father, had the prophet only asked of you something great, you would have done it, wouldn’t you? Yet he told you, ‘Bathe, and be clean…!’” 14 So he went down and plunged himself into the Jordan River[a] seven times, just as the man of God had said, and his flesh rejuvenated like the flesh of a newborn child. And he was clean.
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- 2 Kings 5:14 The Heb. lacks River
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