2 Kings 5:7

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁷When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, “Am I God, to give death or life, that this man sends word to me to cure a man of his leprosy?^[a] Just look and see how he is trying to pick a quarrel with me.”

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2 Kings 5:7 A term for several skin diseases; precise meaning uncertain

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