Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 5:17
Two mules’ burden of earth - This earth, Naaman thought, spread over a portion of Syrian ground, would hallow and render it suitable for the worship of Yahweh. read more
열왕기하 5:8-19 Krv
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 5:18
Rimmon is known to us as a god only by this passage. The name is connected with a root “to be high.” Hadad-rimmon Zechariah 12:11, the name of a place near Megiddo, points to the identity of Rimmon with Hadad, who is known to have been the Sun, the chief object of worship to the Syrians.When he leaneth on mine hand - The practice of a monarch’s “leaning on the hand” of an attendant was not common in the East (compare the marginal reference). It probably implied age or infirmity.The Lord pardon... read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 5:19
So he departed ... - This clause should not be separated from the succeeding verse. The meaning is, “So he departed from him, and had gone a little way, when Gehazi bethought himself of what he would do, and followed after him.” read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Kings 5:8
2 Kings 5:8. Elisha sent to the king, saying, Wherefore hast thou rent thy clothes? There is no just occasion for thee to do so. Let him come now to me It was not for his own honour, but for the honour of God and his people, that he desires the leprous Syrian to be sent to him. And he shall know there is a prophet in Israel One who can do that which the king of Israel dares not attempt, and which the prophets of Syria cannot pretend to: and it were sad with Israel if there were not. As... read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Kings 5:9-10
2 Kings 5:9-10. Naaman stood at the door of the house of Elisha Waiting for Elisha’s coming to him. And Elisha sent a messenger, &c. Which he did partly to try and exercise Naaman’s faith and obedience; partly for the honour of his religion and ministry, that it might appear he sought not his own glory and profit, but only God’s honour and the good of men; and partly for the manifestation of the almighty power of God, which could cure such a desperate disease by such slight means. read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Kings 5:11
2 Kings 5:11. Naaman was wroth Supposing himself to be despised and insulted by the prophet. And said, Behold I thought, &c. Herein he gives us an example of the perverseness of mankind, who are prone to prefer their own fancies to God’s appointments. Big with the expectations of a cure, he had been imagining how this cure would be wrought: and the scheme he had devised was this: He will surely come out to me That is the least he can do to me, a peer of Syria; to me, who am come... read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Kings 5:12
2 Kings 5:12. Are not Abana and Pharpar better than all the waters of Israel How magnificently doth he speak of these two rivers, which watered Damascus, and how scornfully of all the waters of Israel! May I not wash in them and be clean? Is there not as great virtue in them to this purpose? But he should have considered that the cure was not to be wrought by the water, but by the power of God, who might use what means and method of cure he pleased. read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Kings 5:13
2 Kings 5:13. His servants came near Though at other times they kept their distance, and now saw him in a passion, yet knowing him to be a man that would hear reason at any time, and from any one, they drew near, and made bold to argue the matter with him. Happy they who have such servants as these, who both had the courage to speak the truth, and prudence to order their speech with skill, submission, and reverence. My father Or, our father; a title of honour in that country, and a name... read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Kings 5:14
2 Kings 5:14. Then went he down and dipped himself, &c. Upon second thoughts he yielded to make the experiment, yet probably with no great faith or resolution. However, God was pleased to honour himself and the word of his prophet, and to effect the cure, notwithstanding his evil reasoning and unbelief. His flesh came again like the flesh of a little child No doubt to his great surprise and joy. And he was clean Fresh and pure, free from every the least mixture or mark of the... read more
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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 5:16
I will receive none - The prophets were in the habit of receiving presents from those who consulted them 1 Samuel 9:7-8; 1 Kings 14:3, but Elisha refused. It was important that Naaman should not suppose that the prophets of the true God acted from motives of self-interest, much less imagine that “the gift of God might be purchased with money” Acts 8:20. read more