Elisha, heals the Gentile Naaman of leprosy. But Naaman wasn’t just any Gentile; Naaman was the general of the dreaded Syrian army that had been threatening Israel. It’s one thing to make a Gentile widow a sympathetic figure in a Jewish story, but it’s another thing to do that with a Syrian general. Imagine an Israeli story where God heals a Hamas general and you’ll get some idea of what is going on with this story.
