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Luke 4:26-29

26 Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow in Zarephath in the region of Sidon.

27 And there were many in Israel with leprosy^[a] in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed—only Naaman the Syrian.”

28 All the people in the synagogue were furious when they heard this.

29 They got up, drove him out of the town, and took him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw him off the cliff.

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Cross References 3

1. 1 Kings 17:8-16; S Matthew 11:21
2. 2 Kings 5:1-14
3. Numbers 15:35; Acts 7:58; Hebrews 13:12

Footnotes 1

[a]. The Greek word traditionally translated "leprosy" was used for various diseases affecting the skin.

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