2 Kings 5
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Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the LORD had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, but he was a leper.

A.M.

Luke 4:27 And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet; …

a great

2 Kings 4:8 And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great …

Exodus 11:3 And the LORD gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. …

Esther 9:4 For Mordecai was great in the king's house, and his fame went out …

Esther 10:3 For Mordecai the Jew was next to king Ahasuerus, and great among …

with [heb] before
honourable. or, gracious [heb] lifted up, or accepted in countenance

by him

Proverbs 21:31 The horse is prepared against the day of battle: but safety is of the LORD.

Isaiah 10:5,6 O Assyrian, the rod of my anger, and the staff in their hand is my …

Jeremiah 27:5,6 I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are on the ground, …

Deuteronomy 2:37 Only to the land of the children of Ammon you came not, nor to any …

John 19:11 Jesus answered, You could have no power at all against me, except …

Romans 15:18 For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ …

deliverance. or, cictory
a leper

2 Kings 5:27 The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall stick to you, and to your seed for ever…

2 Kings 7:3 And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and …

Leviticus 13:2,3,44-46 When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising, a scab, …

Numbers 12:10-12 And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam …

2 Samuel 3:29 Let it rest on the head of Joab, and on all his father's house; and …

2 Chronicles 26:19-23 Then Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burn incense: …

2 Corinthians 12:7 And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance …

And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman's wife.
And she said unto her mistress, Would God my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! for he would recover him of his leprosy.
And one went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and thus said the maid that is of the land of Israel.
And the king of Syria said, Go to, go, and I will send a letter unto the king of Israel. And he departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of raiment.
And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, Now when this letter is come unto thee, behold, I have therewith sent Naaman my servant to thee, that thou mayest recover him of his leprosy.
And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.
And it was so, when Elisha the man of God had heard that the king of Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, Wherefore hast thou rent thy clothes? let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.
So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariot, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha.
And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean.
But Naaman was wroth, 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 strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.
Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage.

Abana and Pharpar. or, Amana. This river is evidently the Barrade, or Barada, as the Arabic renders, the Chrysorrhoas of the Greeks, which taking its rise in Antilibanu, 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

2 Kings 5:17 And Naaman said, Shall there not then, I pray you, be given to your …

2 Kings 2:8,14 And Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped it together, and smote the …

Joshua 3:15-17 And as they that bore the ark were come to Jordan, and the feet of …

Ezekiel 47:1-8 Afterward he brought me again to the door of the house; and, behold, …

Zechariah 13:1 In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David …

Zechariah 14:8 And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from …

Mark 1:9 And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth …

And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?

his servants

2 Kings 5:3 And she said to her mistress, Would God my lord were with the prophet …

1 Samuel 25:14-17 But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, Behold, …

1 Kings 20:23,31 And the servants of the king of Syria said to him, Their gods are …

Job 32:8,9 But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty …

Jeremiah 38:7-10 Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs which was in …

My father

2 Kings 2:12 And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot …

2 Kings 6:21 And the king of Israel said to Elisha, when he saw them, My father, …

2 Kings 13:14 Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died. And Joash …

Genesis 41:43 And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they …

Malachi 1:6 A son honors his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a …

Matthew 23:9 And call no man your father on the earth: for one is your Father, …

1 Corinthians 4:15 For though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have …

how much rather

1 Corinthians 1:21,27 For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God…

Wash

2 Kings 5:10 And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, Go and wash in Jordan …

Psalm 51:2,7 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin…

Isaiah 1:16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before …

John 13:8 Peter said to him, You shall never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, …

Acts 22:16 And now why tarry you? arise, and be baptized, and wash away your …

Ephesians 5:26,27 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word…

Titus 3:5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to …

Hebrews 10:22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having …

1 Peter 3:21 The like figure whereunto even baptism does also now save us (not …

Revelation 7:14 And I said to him, Sir, you know. And he said to me, These are they …

Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him: and he said, Behold, now I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel: now therefore, I pray thee, take a blessing of thy servant.

he returned

Luke 17:15-18 And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and …

now I know

2 Kings 5:8 And it was so, when Elisha the man of God had heard that the king …

Joshua 2:9-11 And she said to the men, I know that the LORD has given you the land, …

Joshua 9:9,24 And they said to him, From a very far country your servants are come …

1 Samuel 17:46,47 This day will the LORD deliver you into my hand; and I will smite …

1 Kings 18:36 And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, …

Isaiah 43:10,11 You are my witnesses, said the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: …

Isaiah 44:6,8 Thus said the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD …

Isaiah 45:6 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, …

Jeremiah 10:10,11 But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting …

Jeremiah 16:19-21 O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of …

Daniel 2:47 The king answered to Daniel, and said, Of a truth it is, that your …

Daniel 3:29 Therefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and language, …

Daniel 4:34 And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up my eyes to …

Daniel 6:26,27 I make a decree, That in every dominion of my kingdom men tremble …

Romans 10:10 For with the heart man believes to righteousness; and with the mouth …

a blessing

Genesis 33:11 Take, I pray you, my blessing that is brought to you; because God …

1 Samuel 25:27 And now this blessing which your handmaid has brought to my lord, …

2 Corinthians 9:5 Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brothers, that they …

But he said, As the LORD liveth, before whom I stand, I will receive none. And he urged him to take it; but he refused.
And Naaman said, Shall there not then, I pray thee, be given to thy servant two mules' burden of earth? for thy servant will henceforth offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice unto other gods, but unto the LORD.
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 hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon: when I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon thy servant in this thing.

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.

2 Kings 7:2,17 Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, …

and I bow

2 Kings 17:35 With whom the LORD had made a covenant, and charged them, saying, …

Exodus 20:5 You shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them: for I the …

1 Kings 19:18 Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which …

the Lord pardon

2 Chronicles 30:18,19 For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, …

Jeremiah 50:20 In those days, and in that time, said the LORD, the iniquity of Israel …

And he said unto him, Go in peace. So he departed from him a little way.
But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought: but, as the LORD liveth, I will run after him, and take somewhat of him.

Gehazi

2 Kings 4:12,31,36 And he said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite. And when …

Matthew 10:4 Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.

John 6:70 Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?

John 12:6 This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was …

John 13:2 And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of …

Acts 8:18,19 And when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles' hands …

my master

Proverbs 26:16 The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can …

Luke 16:8 And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely…

John 12:5,6 Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor…

Acts 5:2 And kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, …

as the Lord liveth

2 Kings 6:31 Then he said, God do so and more also to me, if the head of Elisha …

Exodus 20:7 You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain; for the …

1 Samuel 14:39 For, as the LORD lives, which saves Israel, though it be in Jonathan …

and take

Exodus 20:17 You shall not covet your neighbor's house, you shall not covet your …

Psalm 10:3 For the wicked boasts of his heart's desire, and blesses the covetous, …

Jeremiah 22:17 But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and …

Habakkuk 2:9 Woe to him that covets an evil covetousness to his house, that he …

Luke 12:15 And he said to them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness…

1 Timothy 6:9-11 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and …

2 Timothy 4:10 For Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is …

Titus 1:7 For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not self-willed, …

1 Peter 5:2 Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, …

2 Peter 2:14,15 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling …

So Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman saw him running after him, he lighted down from the chariot to meet him, and said, Is all well?
And he said, All is well. My master hath sent me, saying, Behold, even now there be come to me from mount Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets: give them, I pray thee, a talent of silver, and two changes of garments.
And Naaman said, Be content, take two talents. And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of garments, and laid them upon two of his servants; and they bare them before him.
And when he came to the tower, he took them from their hand, and bestowed them in the house: and he let the men go, and they departed.
But he went in, and stood before his master. And Elisha said unto him, Whence comest thou, Gehazi? And he said, Thy servant went no whither.
And he said unto him, Went not mine heart with thee, when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and maidservants?
The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

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