Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
⛓ Read 2 Kings 5 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Naaman the Syrian's cleansing from leprosy is the paradigmatic OT leprosy-healing and is explicitly invoked by Luke at 4:27, just before this scene. The healing of the leper here coheres with that recently activated narrative; Naaman's restored flesh and the prophet's mediation supply the type.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Naaman's cleansing is the paradigmatic prophetic leprosy healing; a faint precedent for 'lepers are cleansed' as a sign of prophetic power.
Low confidence