Discovery Box2 Kings 5:14 
Context5:14 So he went down and dipped in the Jordan seven times, as the prophet had instructed. 1 His skin became as smooth as a young child’s 2 and he was healed.
2 Kings 5:27
Context5:27 Therefore Naaman’s skin disease will afflict 3 you and your descendants forever!” When Gehazi 4 went out from his presence, his skin was as white as snow. 5
1 tn Heb “according to the word of the man of God.”
2 tn Heb “and his skin was restored, like the skin of a small child.”
3 tn Heb “cling to.”
4 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Gehazi) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
5 tn Traditionally, “he went from before him, leprous like snow.” But see the note at 5:1, as well as M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 66.
