Thematic Bible: Isolation of lepers


Thematic Bible



The whole time that the skin rash infects him, he will be unclean. He is to live by himself in a home outside the encampment." Verse ConceptsCamps, Unclean ThingsQuarantiningQuarantineIsolated PersonsOutside The Camp

"Command the Israelis to send outside the encampment every leper, everyone who has a discharge, and whoever is ritually defiled by contact with a corpse. Verse ConceptsHealingLeprosyQuarantiningQuarantineDischarges

The LORD struck the king so that he was afflicted with leprosy until the day he died. He lived in a separate house while his son Jotham managed the household and ruled the people who lived in the land. Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesQuarantiningHealingOutcastsQuarantine

But the LORD told Moses, "If her father had merely spit in her face, wouldn't she be humiliated? She is to be placed in isolation for seven days. After that, she may be brought in." Verse ConceptsSpittingSalivaShaming People

King Uzziah remained a leper until the day he died. Because he was a leper, he lived in a separate residence and remained disqualified to enter the LORD's Temple. His son Jotham served in the royal palace, judging the people of the land. Verse ConceptsdiseasesHoliness,  Worldly SeparationLonelinessHygieneQuarantine

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