I seemed to have ignored the alphabet again. Sorry. The girl in this story gets only two verses, but they are important -- God works even for non-Israelites.
2 Kings 5:1 Now Naaman, captain of the army of the king of
Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him Yahweh
had given victory to Syria: he was also a mighty man of valor, but he was a
leper. 2 The Syrians had gone out in bands, and had brought away captive out of
the land of Israel a little maiden; and she waited on Naaman’s wife. 3 She said
to her mistress, “I wish that my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria!
Then he would heal him of his leprosy.”
4 Someone went in, and told his lord, saying, “The maiden
who is from the land of Israel said this.”
5 The king of Syria said, “Go now, and I will send a letter
to the king of Israel.”
He departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and
six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of clothing. 6 He brought the
letter to the king of Israel, saying, “Now when this letter has come to you,
behold, I have sent Naaman my servant to you, that you may heal him of his
leprosy.”
7 When the king of Israel had read the letter, he tore his
clothes, and said, “Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends to
me to heal a man of his leprosy? But please consider and see how he seeks a
quarrel against me.”
8 It was so, when Elisha the man of God heard that the king
of Israel had torn his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, “Why have you
torn your clothes? Let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a
prophet in Israel.”
9 So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariots, and
stood at the door of the house of Elisha. 10 Elisha 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.” 11 But 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 Yahweh his God, and wave his hand over the place, and heal the
leper.’ 12 Aren’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. 13 His 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?” 14
Then 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.”
14 Then 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. 15 He returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him; and he said, “See now, I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel. Now therefore, please take a gift from your servant.”
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