Naaman washes away his leprosy in the river Jordan. Engraving by N. de Bruyn, 1607.

Bible, Old Testament, II Kings 5.14, "Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean." Soldiers of the Syrian army, of which Naaman was the commander, watch from the bank of the river, most of them in 16th-century dress, some mounted on horses