2 Kings 5:10 (DBY)

Passage

And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean.

Nearby Context

2 Kings 5:8 And it was so, when Elisha the man of God had heard that the king of Israel had rent his garments, that he sent to the king, saying, Why hast thou rent thy garments? let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.

2 Kings 5:9 And Naaman came with his horses and with his chariot, and stood at the doorway of the house of Elisha.

2 Kings 5:10 And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean.

2 Kings 5:11 And Naaman was wroth, and went away and said, Behold, I thought, He will certainly come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of Jehovah his God, and wave his hand over the place, and cure the leper.

2 Kings 5:12 Are not the Abanah and the Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them and be clean? And he turned and went away in a rage.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "elisha", "sent", "messenger", "saying", "wash", "jordan", "seven", and "times". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "elisha" and "sent", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 9's "And Naaman came with his horses and..." into verse 11's "And Naaman was wroth and went away...", so "elisha" and "sent" belong inside that flow. In 2 Kings context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "elisha" and "sent" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.