2Ki 5 | TSK | STEP | Naaman, by the report of a captive maid, is sent to Samaria to be cured of his leprosy. Elisha, sending him to Jordan cures him. He refusing Naaman's gifts grants him some of the earth. Gehazi, abusing his master's name unto Naaman, is smitten with leprosy. A.M. 3110. B.C. 894. Naaman. a great. with. Heb. before. honourable. or, gracious. Heb. liftedup, or accepted in countenance. by him. deliverance. or, victory. a leper.

six thousand.If shekels are meant, as the Arabic reads, then this, at 1£. 16s. 5d. each, will amount to 10,925£.; and the whole to 14,464£. 18s. 9d.: besides the value of the ten changes of raiment.

ten changes.

Ge 45:22; Jud 14:12; Jas 5:2,3

that he rent.

11:14; 18:37; 19:1; Nu 14:6; Jer 36:24; Mt 26:65; Ac 14:14

Am I God.

Ge 30:2; De 32:29; 1Sa 2:6; Da 2:11; Ho 6:1

see how.

1Ki 20:7; Lu 11:54

rent his clothes.

7; 2Sa 3:31

let him come.

3,15; 1:6; 1Ki 17:24; 18:36,37

and he shall.

Ex 11:8; Ro 11:13; Eze 2:5; Ho 12:13

3:12; 6:32; Isa 60:14; Ac 16:29,30,37-39

sent a messenger.

Mt 15:23-26

wash.

2:21; 3:16; 4:41; Joh 9:7; 1Co 6:11

seven times.

Le 14:7,16,51; 16:14,19; Nu 19:4,19; Jos 6:4,13-16

thy flesh.

14; Ex 4:6,7

Naaman.

Pr 13:10; Mt 8:8; 15:27; Lu 14:11

went away.

Pr 1:32; Mt 19:22; Joh 6:66-69; 13:20; Heb 12:25

Behold.

Pr 3:7; Isa 55:8,9; Joh 4:48; 1Co 1:21-25; 2:14-16; 3:18-20

I thought, etc. Heb. I said, etc. or, I said with myself,He will surely come out, etc. strike. Heb. move up and down.

Abana and Pharpar. or, Amana.This river is evidently the Barrada, or Barda, as the Arabic renders, the Chrysorrhoas of the Greeks, which taking its rise in Antilibanus, runs eastward towards Damascus, where it is divided into three streams, one of which passes through the city, and the other two through the gardens; which reuniting at the east of the city, forms a lake about five or six leagues to the south-east, called Behairat el Marj, or, Lake of the Meadow. Pharpar was probably one of the branches.

better.

17; 2:8,14; Jos 3:15-17; Eze 47:1-8; Zec 13:1; 14:8; Mr 1:9

his servants.

3; 1Sa 25:14-17; 1Ki 20:23,31; Job 32:8,9; Jer 38:7-10

My father.

2:12; 6:21; 13:14; Ge 41:43; Mal 1:6; Mt 23:9; 1Co 4:15

how much rather.

1Co 1:21,27

Wash.

10; Ps 51:2,7; Isa 1:16; Joh 13:8; Ac 22:16; Eph 5:26,27; Tit 3:5

Heb 10:22; 1Pe 3:21; Re 7:14

went he down.

Job 31:13; Pr 9:9; 25:11,12; Eze 47:1-9; Zec 13:1; 14:8

according to.

2Ch 20:20; Joh 2:5; Heb 11:7,8

his flesh.

10; Job 33:25

and he was clean.

Lu 4:27; 5:13; Tit 2:14

he returned.

Lu 17:15-18

now I know.

8; Jos 2:9-11; 9:9,24; 1Sa 17:46,47; 1Ki 18:36; Isa 43:10,11

Isa 44:6,8; 45:6; Jer 10:10,11; 16:19-21; Da 2:47; 3:29; 4:34

Da 6:26,27; Ro 10:10

a blessing.

Ge 33:11; 1Sa 25:27; 2Co 9:5

As the Lord.

3:14; 1Ki 17:1; 18:15

I will receive.

20,26; Ge 14:22,23; 1Ki 13:8; Da 5:17; Mt 10:8; Ac 8:18-20

Ac 20:33-35; 1Co 6:12; 10:32,33; 2Co 11:9,10; 12:14

of earth.

12; Ro 14:1

will henceforth.

Ac 26:18; 1Th 1:9; 1Pe 4:3

and he leaneth.This verse should probably, as many learned men have supposed, be read in the past, and not in the future tense: "In this thing the Lord pardon thy servant, that when my master went into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaned on my hand, and I worshipped in the house of Rimmon; in that I have worshipped in the house of Rimmon, the Lord pardon thy servant in this thing." Rimmon is supposed by Selden to the same with Elion, a god of the Phoenicians, borrowed undoubtedly from the Elyon of the Hebrews, one of the names of God.

7:2,17

and I bow.

17:35; Ex 20:5; 1Ki 19:18

the Lord pardon.

2Ch 30:18,19; Jer 50:20

he said.

Mt 9:16,17; Joh 16:12; 1Co 3:2; Heb 5:13,14

Go in peace.

Ex 4:18; 1Sa 1:17; 25:35; Mr 5:34; Lu 7:50; 8:48

little way. Heb. a little piece of ground.

Ge 35:16; *marg:

Gehazi.