5 Now a certain Naʹa·man,+ the chief of the army of the king of Syria, had become a great man before his lord* and held in esteem,* because it was by him that Jehovah had given salvation* to Syria;+ and the man himself had proved to be a valiant, mighty man, though a leper.*

27 Also, there were many lepers in Israel in the time of E·liʹsha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed, but Naʹa·man the man of Syria.”+