2Ki 7:3-4 | KingComments | STEP | Then our attention is directed at four leprous men at the entrance of the gate of the city. There is hardly a situation imaginable that is more hopeless than that of these four leprous men. They have participated in the same terrible famine, but have also been ejected from the city. They suffered with the people around them as well as suffering in their own body. These men were different from Naaman, for they were members of God’s people. The law of leprosy applies to them (Leviticus 13-14). Leprosy in a member of God’s people, represents the bursting out of sin in this person. Therefore, the application here is not primarily about a sinner of the world who lives in his sins, but what a child of God falls into, when sin has the opportunity to manifest itself in him. Also the further lessons are different. With Naaman it is about cleaning his leprosy. In the four leprous men we see more the path to spiritual recovery. They sat down, deliberated and considered the situation in all its realities. Death was around them and death was in them. They were completely without confidence of survival. They would starve in the city, and outside the city they would also die. Their only hope seemed to be the enemy’s mercy for them. With this acknowledgement, their path of restoration begins.

‏ 2 Kings 7:3-4

Four Leprous Men Confer

Then our attention is directed at four leprous men at the entrance of the gate of the city. There is hardly a situation imaginable that is more hopeless than that of these four leprous men. They have participated in the same terrible famine, but have also been ejected from the city. They suffered with the people around them as well as suffering in their own body.

These men were different from Naaman, for they were members of God’s people. The law of leprosy applies to them (Leviticus 13-14). Leprosy in a member of God’s people, represents the bursting out of sin in this person. Therefore, the application here is not primarily about a sinner of the world who lives in his sins, but what a child of God falls into, when sin has the opportunity to manifest itself in him. Also the further lessons are different. With Naaman it is about cleaning his leprosy. In the four leprous men we see more the path to spiritual recovery.

They sat down, deliberated and considered the situation in all its realities. Death was around them and death was in them. They were completely without confidence of survival. They would starve in the city, and outside the city they would also die. Their only hope seemed to be the enemy’s mercy for them. With this acknowledgement, their path of restoration begins.