Passage

2 Kings 5

• Glossary Term

  Foreigner

  Naaman, a Syrian military commander, receiving God's grace and healing anticipates a wider scope for God's mercy beyond Israel alone.

  2KI.5.1-19

• Glossary Term

  Greed

  Gehazi's greed (2 Kings 5:20-27) and its consequence (inheriting Naaman's leprosy); standard term.

  2KI.5.20-27

• Doctrine

  Greed and Judgment

  Gehazi's greed and deception, contrasted with Naaman's transformed generosity, brings Naaman's leprosy onto Gehazi -- a direct narrative consequence, not incidental detail.

  2KI.5.20-27

• Glossary Term

  Healing

  Naaman's healing (2 Kings 5) demonstrates God's power over disease and, notably, over a foreign commander -- keep both dimensions in view.

  2KI.5.1-14

• Doctrine

  Healing and Faith

  Naaman's healing required simple obedient faith ('wash in the Jordan'), not achievement or elaborate ritual -- his initial resistance and eventual obedience is the narrative's own teaching point.

  2KI.5.1-14

• Glossary Term

  Leprosy

  Standard term; the disease afflicting Naaman and later Gehazi.

  2KI.5.1-14

• Doctrine

  Universal Scope of God's Grace

  Naaman is a foreign military commander (and Israel's enemy), yet receives God's healing and comes to confess the LORD alone as God -- this anticipates a scope of grace beyond Israel that Jesus himself cites in Luke 4:27.

  2KI.5.1-19