2 Kings 5:10

5:10 Elisha sent out a messenger who told him, “Go and wash seven times in the Jordan; your skin will be restored ¹  and you will be healed.”

2 Kings 5:12

5:12 The rivers of Damascus, the Abana and Pharpar, are better than any of the waters of Israel! ²  Could I not wash in them and be healed?” So he turned around and went away angry.

2 Kings 5:14

5:14 So he went down and dipped in the Jordan seven times, as the prophet had instructed. ³  His skin became as smooth as a young child’s ⁴  and he was healed.

¹ tn Heb “will return to you.”

² tn Heb “Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all of the waters of Israel?” The rhetorical question expects an emphatic “yes” as an answer.

³ tn Heb “according to the word of the man of God.”

⁴ tn Heb “and his skin was restored, like the skin of a small child.”