12 Facts About Naaman

1.

Naaman the Aramean was a commander of the armies of Ben-Hadad II, the king of Aram-Damascus, in the time of Joram, king of Israel.

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2.

Naaman was a good commander and was held in favor because of the victory that God brought him.

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3.

Naaman's wife had a servant girl from Israel who said that a prophet there would be able to heal him.

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4.

Naaman tells his lord this and he is sent to Israel with a letter to the king.

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5.

Elisha then told Naaman to go bathe in the Jordan seven times and he would be clean.

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6.

Naaman was angry and would have left, but his servant asked him to try it and he was healed.

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7.

Naaman is mentioned in 2 Kings 5 of the Tanakh in Hebrew as "????? ??? ??? ???? ???" or "Naaman captain of the army of the King of Aram".

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8.

Now Naaman, the general of the king of Aram, was a prominent man before his lord and respected, for through him had the Lord given victory to Aram; and the man was a great warrior, and he was a mezora.

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9.

Only after Naaman's slaves suggest to their master that he has nothing to lose by at least giving it a try since the task is a simple and easy one, he takes his bath in the Jordan river as a mikveh as instructed and finds himself healed.

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10.

Naaman does ask for sacrificial altar soil to be given him to take back home and that the God of Israel pardon him when he enters the temple of Rimmon as part of his obligations to the king of Syria.

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11.

Request of Naaman to be permitted to carry away two mules' burden of Israelitish earth for the purpose of erecting upon it an altar on which to offer sacrifices to Yhwh, reflects the belief of those days that the god of each land could be worshiped only on his own soil.

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12.

Naaman is paraphrased in Luke 4:27 of the New Testament, in Greek as "?a?µa? ? S????" or "Naaman the Syrian", a leper.

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