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25 (A) Once during the time of Elijah there was no rain for three and a half years, and people everywhere were starving. There were many widows in Israel, 26 (B) but Elijah was sent only to a widow in the town of Zarephath near the city of Sidon. 27 (C) During the time of the prophet Elisha, many men in Israel had leprosy.[a] But no one was healed, except Naaman who lived in Syria.

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  1. 4.27 leprosy: In biblical times the word “leprosy” was used for many different kinds of skin diseases.

25 I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout the land.(A) 26 Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow in Zarephath in the region of Sidon.(B) 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.”(C)

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  1. Luke 4:27 The Greek word traditionally translated leprosy was used for various diseases affecting the skin.