Verse 34
(34) A certain man.—Josephus says, “a young man named Naaman.” (Comp.2 Kings 5:1; 2 Kings 5:1 : “because by him the Lord had given deliverance to Syria.”)
The driver of his chariot.—In the Egyptian and Assyrian monuments, as subsequently in the Greek of the Homeric days, the war-chariot holds but two, the warrior and the charioteer. This is the first place where the chariot, introduced by Solomon from Egypt (1 Kings 10:29), is mentioned as actually used in war. (See subsequently, 2 Kings 9:16; 2 Kings 9:21; 2 Kings 23:30; and compare the proverbial expression of this period, “The chariot of Israel and the horsemen thereof,” 2 Kings 2:12; 2 Kings 13:14.)
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