_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._ Naaman ... was a great man with his master - highly esteemed for his military ch... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ A little maid - who had been captured in one of the many predatory incursions which were then made by the Syrians on the northern border of Israel (see... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ Ten talents of silver - 3,421 pounds sterling. SIX THOUSAND PIECES OF GOLD - a large su... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ When the king of... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ Elisha ... sent to the king, saying ... let him co... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO NAAMAN CAME WITH HIS HORSES AND WITH HIS CHARIOT, AND STOOD AT THE DOOR OF THE HOUSE OF ELISHA._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ Strike his hand over the place - i:e., wave it over the diseased parts of his body. It w... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 - the Abana (strong); the Greek Chrysorrhoas (golden stream), now Barrada (gold river). Taking its rise in Anti-Lebano... [ Continue Reading ]
_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?_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan. Persuaded by his calmer and more reflecting attend... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 to the man of God. After the miraculous cure, Na... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ Two mules' burden of earth - with which to make an altar (Exodus 20:24) to the God... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ Goeth into the house of Rim... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 interpretation in our version (see fully in Poli Synopsis). SO HE DEPARTED FROM HIM A LITTLE WAY, х_... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ I will run after him, and take somewhat of him. The respectful co... [ Continue Reading ]
_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?_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ In two bags. People in the East, when traveling, have their money, in certain sums, pu... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ When he came to the tower х_ HAA`OPEL_ (H6076), the hill, rising ground; some particular tumulus or eminence at the entrance into the city. The Septuagint has: ee... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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?_ Is it a time to receive money ... [The Septu... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ Leper as white as snow - (see the notes at Leviticus 13:3.) This heavy infliction was not too severe for the crime of Gehazi. For it was not the covetous... [ Continue Reading ]