2 Kings 5
Naaman Cured of Leprosy; Gehazi Smitten
The Miracles of Elisha1
Now Naaman, captain of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him the LORD had given victory to Syria: he was also a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.
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She said to her mistress, "I wish that my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! Then he would heal him of his leprosy."
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Someone went in, and told his lord, saying, "The maiden who is from the land of Israel said this."
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He brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, "Now when this letter has come to you, behold, I have sent Naaman my servant to you, that you may heal him of his leprosy."
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When the king of Israel had read the letter, he tore his clothes, and said, "Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends to me to heal a man of his leprosy? But please consider and see how he seeks a quarrel against me."
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It was so, when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, "Why have you torn your clothes? Let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel."
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So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariots, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha.
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But Naaman was angry, and went away, and said, "Behold, I thought, 'He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the LORD his God, and wave his hand over the place, and heal the leper.'
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Aren't Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Couldn't I wash in them, and be clean?" So he turned and went away in a rage.
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His servants came near, and spoke to him, and said, "My father, if the prophet had asked you do some great thing, wouldn't you have done it? How much rather then, when he says to you, 'Wash, and be clean?'"
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Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
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He returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him; and he said, "See now, I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel. Now therefore, please take a gift from your servant."
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But he said, "As the LORD lives, before whom I stand, I will receive none."He urged him to take it; but he refused.
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He said to him, "Go in peace."So he departed from him a little way.
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But Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, "Behold, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought. As the LORD lives, I will run after him, and take something from him."
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So Gehazi followed after Naaman. When Naaman saw one running after him, he came down from the chariot to meet him, and said, "Is all well?"
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Naaman said, "Be pleased to take two talents." He urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of clothing, and laid them on two of his servants; and they carried them before him.
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When he came to the hill, he took them from their hand, and stored them in the house. Then he let the men go, and they departed.
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But he went in, and stood before his master. Elisha said to him, "Where did you come from, Gehazi?"He said, "Your servant went nowhere."
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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
THE
SECOND BOOK OF THE KINGS,
COMMONLY CALLED
THE FOURTH BOOK OF THE KINGS.
Commentary by ROBERT JAMIESON
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