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Verse 2 Kings 5:19. _AND HE SAID UNTO HIM_] There is a most singular
and important reading in one of De Rossi's MSS., which he numbers 191.
It has in the margin לא ק that is, "read לא _lo, not_, inst...
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4. NAAMAN AND HIS HEALING
CHAPTER 5
_ 1. Naaman, the leper (2 Kings 5:1)_
2. The testimony of the maid of Israel (2 Kings 5:2)
3. The message to the king of Israel (2 Kings 5:5)
4. Naaman and Eli...
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NAAMAN HEALED OF HIS LEPROSY. This story, familiar to all, presupposes
a time of peace between Israel and Syria. As in 1 Kings 20, the king
of Syria addresses the king of Israel (unnamed here) as his...
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GO IN PEACE. God's servants are not "directors of conscience", but
ministers of His Word. To have sanctioned it would have recognized
idolatry. To have forbidden it would have put Naaman under. yoke t...
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_Go in peace_ We are not to consider this answer as implying that
service of God and service of Rimmon might be combined without any
incongruity. The prophet appears rather to be willing to leave the...
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DISCOURSE: 366
NAAMAN BOWING IN THE HOUSE OF RIMMON
2 Kings 5:18. _In this thing the Lord pardon thy servant, that when my
master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth
on my...
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C. NAAMAN'S CONVERSION 5:15-19
TRANSLATION
(15) And he returned unto the man of God, he and all his company. And
he came, and stood before him, and said, Behold, I pray you, I know
that there is no G...
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_AND HE SAID UNTO HIM, GO IN PEACE. SO HE DEPARTED FROM HIM A LITTLE
WAY._
And he said unto him, Go in peace - i:e., God will accept of thy
repentance. The Septuagint, however, does not support the
i...
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THE HEALING OF NAAMAN AND THE PUNISHMENT OF GEHAZI
1. The Lord.. Syria] Possibly the enemies from whom the Syrians had
been saved were the Assyrians. Naaman, in delivering his countrymen
from them, ha...
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GO IN PEACE] Elisha, to avoid putting too severe a strain upon the
incipient devotion of his foreign convert, did not demand consistency,
though his predecessor Elijah, in the case of native Israelite...
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THE LAST KINGS OF *ISRAEL AND *JUDAH
BOOK OF 2 KINGS
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 5
NAAMAN’S ILLNESS
V1 Naaman was the leader of a king’s army. It was the army of the
king of Syria. Naaman’s master r...
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A LITTLE WAY. — Heb., a _kibrâh_ of ground (Genesis 35:16). It
seems to mean “a length of ground,” “a certain distance,”
without defining exactly how far. Had it been a parasang, as the
Syriac renders...
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וַ יֹּ֥אמֶר לֹ֖ו לֵ֣ךְ לְ שָׁלֹ֑ום וַ
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THE STORY OF NAAMAN
2 Kings 5:1
And Jesus put forth _ his_ hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be
thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
Matthew 8:3
AFTER these shorter anecdotes...
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THE PENALTY OF GREED
2 Kings 5:15
Naaman was so grateful that he came twenty miles out of his way to
render thanks to the man of God, bringing a great sum as a gift.
Notice his whole-souled desire to...
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When Elijah had felt that he alone was left loyal to God he had been
told of seven thousand who had not bowed the knee to Baal. One of
these, or perchance the child of one, stands before us in this
na...
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And he said unto him, (k) Go in peace. So he departed from him a
little way.
(k) The prophet did not approve his act, but after the common manner
of speech he bids him farewell....
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Go in peace. What the prophet here allowed, was not an outward
conformity to an idolatrous worship, but only a service which by his
office he cowed to his master; who, on all public occasions, leaned...
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Observe what a vast work the Lord had wrought upon the heart of this
Syrian! The leprosy of his skin was not only washed away, but the
leprosy and unbelief of his soul, he is at once convinced that th...
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However, the next chapter (2 Kings 3:1-27) brings us at once into
earthly circumstances. "Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign
over Israel in Samaria the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of
J...
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Elisha goes also beyond the borders of Israel in dispensing the
blessing of which he is the instrument; and, when the king of Israel
is troubled at Naaman's coming, Elisha heals the leprosy of this
Ge...
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AND HE SAID UNTO HIM,.... That is, the prophet said to Naaman:
GO IN PEACE: in peace of mind; be assured that God has pardoned this
and all other transgressions:
SO HE DEPARTED FROM HIM A LITTLE WAY...
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And he said unto him, Go in peace. So he departed from him a little
way.
Ver. 19. _Go in peace._] A friendly dismission, or as some will have
it, a dilatory answer - _q.d., _ Go thy way, trouble not...
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2 Kin. 5:19. "And he said unto him, Go in peace." These words do not
at all imply that the prophet approved of the design Naaman had just
before declared of bowing in the house of Rimmon. There indeed...
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1 Naaman, by the report of a captiue mayd, is sent to Samaria to be
cured of his leprosie.
8 Elisha, sending him to Iordan, cureth him.
15 He refusing Naamans gifts, granteth him some of the earth....
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a. AND HE, Elisha, SAID UNTO HIM, GO IN PEACE. We see from this entire
story, first, that the Lord demands simple and absolute obedience to
His Word; secondly, that He had mercy. also upon the poor he...
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THE HEALING OF NAAMAN...
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NAAMAN THE LEPER HEALED
(vv.1-19)
The history continues in this chapter to focus attention, not on the
kings, but on Elisha the man of God. When the kings had failed so
badly the Lord used a prophet...
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A LITTLE WAY:
_ Heb._ a little piece of ground...
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15-19 The mercy of the cure affected Naaman more than the miracle.
Those are best able to speak of the power of Divine grace, who
themselves experience it. He also shows himself grateful to Elisha th...
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GO IN PEACE: these words may contain an answer, either, first, To his
last petition, 2 KINGS 5:18; and so the sense may be this, Be not too
solicitous about this matter; go, and the peace or blessing...
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2 Kings 5:19 said H559 (H8799) Go H3212 (H8798) peace H7965 departed
H3212 (H8799) short H3530 distance...
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THE HEALING OF NAAMAN, THE GENERAL OF ARAM (SYRIA) AND THE SMITING OF
GEHAZI, THE SERVANT OF ELISHA (2 KINGS 5:1).
This is not only a remarkable story in that it recounts the healing by
YHWH of an Ara...
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2 Kings 5:17
Here we find Naaman making an excuse, it is said, for dissembling his
religious convictions, and Elisha accepting the plea. He is convinced
that Jehovah is the true God, but is not prepar...
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CONTENTS: Naaman the Syrian healed by obeying Elisha's word.
CHARACTERS: God, Elisha, Naaman, maid, Syrian king, king of Israel,
Gehazi.
CONCLUSION: There is little hope for one who is more concerne...
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2 Kings 5:8. _When Elisha heard that the king had rent his clothes,_
he laid the case before the Lord and received his instruction how to
proceed.
2 Kings 5:10. _Elisha sent a messenger,_ to cure Naam...
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_In this thing the Lord pardon thy servant._
COMPROMISE
Naaman returned to Elisha; full of gratitude and generous recognition
of his own error and Elisha’s successful power, he and all his
company ca...
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_Now Naaman, captain of the host of the King of Syria._
THE HISTORY OF NAAMAN’S DISEASE AND CURE; ILLUSTRATIVE OF CERTAIN
FORCES IN THE LIFE OF MAN
I. The force of worldly position. Why all the inter...
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2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 5:1 The account of Elisha’s miracles
continues with a story that again recalls the ministry of Elijah: the
Lord is God not only of Israelites but also of foreigners (compare 1...
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NAAMAN, THE SYRIAN LEPER
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.—
2 Kings 5:1. NAAMAN WAS A GREAT MAN WITH HIS MASTER—גִּבּוֹר
חַיִל does not refer to mere physical force, but to the high
esteem in which he...
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EXPOSITION
2 KINGS 5:1
THE CURE OF NAAMAN'S LEPROSY. HIS GRATITUDE; AND THE SIN OF GEHAZI,
The historian continues his narrative of Elisha's miracles, commenced
i
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Now Naaman was the captain of the host of Syria, he was a great man
with his master, he was honorable, because the LORD had actually
helped him to subdue many nations. He was a mighty man and very bra...
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1 Corinthians 3:2; 1 Samuel 1:17; 1 Samuel 25:35; Exodus 4:18;...