John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 5:16
But he said, as the Lord liveth, before whom I stand ,.... Whose minister and prophet he was, and by whom he swears: I will receive none : to let him know that this cure was not to be attributed to him, but the Lord only; and that what concern he had in it was not for the sake of money, but for the glory of the God of Israel: and he urged him to take it, but he refused it ; Naaman was very pressing upon him to receive a gift from him, but he could not be prevailed upon to accept it. read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Kings 5:15-19
Of the ten lepers that our Saviour cleansed, the only one that returned to give thanks was a Samaritan, Luke 17:16. This Syrian did so, and here expresses himself. I. Convinced of the power of the God of Israel, not only that he is God, but that he is God alone, and that indeed there is no God in all the earth but in Israel (2 Kgs. 5:15)-- a noble confession, but such as intimates the misery of the Gentile world; for the nations that had many gods really had no God, but were without God in the... read more