2 Kings 5:11

Contextual Overview

⁹So Naaman came with his horses and chariots and stood at the door of Elisha’s house. ⁹ So Na`aman came with his horses and with his chariots, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha. ⁹ So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariot, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha. ⁹ So Naaman came with his horses and chariots and stood at the door of Elisha's house. ⁹ So Naaman went with his horses and chariots to Elisha's house and stood outside the door. ⁹ So Naaman came with his horses and chariots and stood in the doorway of Elisha's house. ⁹So Naaman came with his horses and chariots and stopped at the entrance of Elisha's house. ⁹ So Naaman came with his horses and his chariots, and stood at the doorway of Elisha's house. ⁹ Then Naaman came with his horses, and with his charets, and stoode at the doore of the house of Elisha. ⁹So Naaman came with his horses and his chariots and stood at the doorway of the house of Elisha.

Bible Verse Review
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Naaman: Proverbs 13:10, Matthew 8:8, Matthew 15:27, Luke 14:11

went away: Proverbs 1:32, Matthew 19:22, John 6:66-69, John 13:20, Hebrews 12:25

Behold: Proverbs 3:7, Isaiah 55:8, Isaiah 55:9, John 4:48, 1 Corinthians 1:21-25, 1 Corinthians 2:14-16, 1 Corinthians 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.

Reciprocal: Genesis 19:18 - General Genesis 20:7 - pray Genesis 31:36 - was wroth 2 Kings 4:5 - she went 2 Kings 4:16 - do not lie 2 Kings 4:33 - prayed Matthew 1:24 - did Matthew 8:3 - put Matthew 9:18 - come Mark 5:23 - lay thy hands Luke 23:8 - and he James 5:14 - pray

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But Naaman was wroth with him,.... On more accounts than one:

and went away; not to Jordan, but from the prophet's house, with an intention to return to his own country:

behold, I thought, he will surely come out to me this he said within himself, making no doubt of it but that he would show him so much respect and civility as to come out of his house to him, and converse with him, or invite him into it and not doing this was one thing made him wroth: and stand; he supposed that he would not only come out, but stand before him, as inferiors before their superiors in reverence, but instead of that he remained sitting within doors:

and call on the name of the Lord his God: he expected, that as he was a prophet of the Lord, that he would have prayed to him for the cure of him:

and strike his hand over the place; wave his hand to and fro, as the word signifies, over the place of the leprosy, as the Targum, over the place affected with it; or towards the place where he worshipped the Lord, as Ben Gersom, toward the temple at Jerusalem; or towards Jordan, the place where he bid him go and wash, as Abarbinel; but the first sense seems best: "and recover the leper"; meaning himself, heal him by the use of such means and rites.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He will surely come out to me - In the East a code of unwritten laws prescribes exactly how visits are to be paid, and how visitors are to be received, according to the worldly rank of the parties (compare 2 Kings 5:21). No doubt, according to such a code, Elisha should have gone out to meet Naaman at the door of his house.

And call on the name of the Lord his God - literally, “of Yahweh his God.” Naaman is aware that Yahweh is the God of Elisha. Compare the occurrence of the name of Yahweh on the “Moabite Stone” (2 Kings 3:4 note).

Strike - Better, as in the margin, “pass the fingers up and down the place” at a short distance. It seems implied that the leprosy was partial.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Kings 5:11. Naaman was wroth — And why? Because the prophet treated him without ceremony; and because he appointed him an expenseless and simple mode of cure.

Behold, I thought — God's ways are not as our ways; he appoints that mode of cure which he knows to be best. Naaman expected to be treated with great ceremony; and instead of humbling himself before the Lord's prophet, he expected the prophet of the Lord to humble himself before him! Behold l thought; - and what did he think? Hear his words, for they are all very emphatic: -

1. "I thought, He will surely come OUT to ME. He will never make his servant the medium of communication between ME and himself.

2. And stand - present himself before me, and stand as a servant to hear the orders of his God.

3. And call on the name of Jehovah HIS God; so that both his God and himself shall appear to do me service and honour.

4. And strike his hand over the place; for can it be supposed that any healing virtue can be conveyed without contact? Had he done these things, then the leper might have been recovered."