2 Kings 6:12 - Exposition

And one of his servants said — i.e. one of those interrogated, answered— None, my lord, O king ; literally, Nay , my lord , the king—meaning , " Think not so; it is not as thou supposest; there is no traitor in thy camp or in thy court; we are all true men. The explanation of the circumstances that surprise thee is quite different." But Elisha, the prophet that is in Israel —compare "the man of God" ( 2 Kings 6:9 ); so much above the others, that he is spoken of as if there were no other— telleth the King of Israel the words that thou speakest in thy bedchamber ; literally, in the secret place of thy bedchamber . How the Syrian lord knew this, or whether he merely made a shrewd guess, we cannot say. Elisha's miraculous gifts had, no doubt, become widely known to the Syrians through the cure of Naaman's leprosy; and the lord, who may possibly have been Naaman himself, concluded that a man who could cure s leper could also read a king's secret thoughts without difficulty.