2 Kings 5:10 (DRB)

Passage

And Eliseus sent a messenger to him, saying: Go, and wash seven times in the Jordan, and thy flesh shall recover health, and thou shalt be clean.

Nearby Context

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

2 Kings 5:9 So Naaman came with his horses and chariots, and stood at the door of the house of Eliseus:

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

2 Kings 5:11 Naaman was angry, and went away, saying: I thought he would have come out to me, and standing, would have invoked the name of the Lord his God, and touched with his hand the place of the leprosy, and healed me.

2 Kings 5:12 Are not the Abana, and the Pharphar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel, that I may wash in them, and be made clean? So as he turned, and was going away with indignation,

Study Lenses

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

The nearby context moves from verse 9's "So Naaman came with his horses and..." into verse 11's "Naaman was angry and went away saying...", so "eliseus" 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 "eliseus" and "sent" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.