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HOLY SERVANTS OF GOD
THE BOYS RIDICULE THE PROPHET ELISEUS
Eliseus and mocked him, saying, ''Go up, tho bald head.'' Eliseus tunied back and cursed them in the name of the Lord, and two bears came out of the forest and tore the forty-two boys to pieces.
Naaman was the general of the Syrian army. He El s
was brave and rich. He was great and honorable, but r
contracted leprosy.
A little girl whom Syrian rob rs brought out of the
land of Israel was maid to Naaman's wife. One day she said to her mistress, ''I wish my master had been with the prophet that is in Samaria. He would cer tainly have healed him of the leprosy which he hath." When the king of Syria heard of the wonderful prophet in Israel, he sent Naaman with a letter and
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