2 Kings 5:2 meaning and explanation

At this time the Arameans had gone out in bands and had taken a young girl from the land of Israel, and she was serving Naaman’s wife.

2 Kings 5:2, Berean Standard Bible

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The narrator sets the scene for Naaman's healing by naming a small, painful detail: Aramean raiding bands had carried off a young Israelite girl, and she now served the wife of the very commander whose army had taken her. She is unnamed, with no rights and no way home, yet the story gives her the first word of hope, since she tells her mistress about the prophet in Samaria.

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