2 Kings 5:14

Then went he down His rage had first gone down, and thus he was in a fitter condition to undertake the journey commanded him.

and dippedhimself seven times Not only in the journey to the river, which was without any display, and merely terminated in some lonely spot on the river's brink, but also in the repeated dippings was the faith of Naaman put to the test. For if we may judge from the fall of the walls of Jericho, which stood unmoved till the last time the ark was carried round them, it seems probable that the cure did not shew itself till the whole of the ablutions were completed.

like unto the flesh of a little child In striking contrast to its former foul and diseased condition, it now became fresher and fairer than was natural in a full grown man.