Wesley's Explanatory Notes
2 Kings 5:13
My father — Or, our father. So they call him, to shew their reverence and affection to him.
My father — Or, our father. So they call him, to shew their reverence and affection to him.
Verse 2 Kings 5:13. _MY FATHER_] A title of the highest respect and affection. _HAD BID THEE_ DO SOME _GREAT THING_] If the prophet had appointed thee to do something very _difficult_ in itself, and...
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...
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...
SERVANTS. Again used by God. Compare verses: 2 Kings 5:2. MY FATHER.. title of honour and affection....
_his servants came near_ As the chief ministers of the king are called -servants" though they probably are of distinguished rank; so the servants of Naaman were probably persons nearly his equals in e...
DISCOURSE: 365 NAAMAN HEALED OF HIS LEPROSY 2 Kings 5:13. _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...
B. NAAMAN'S CLEANSING 5:8-14 TRANSLATION (8) And it came to pass when Elisha, the man of God, heard that the king of Israel had torn his garments, that he sent onto the king, saying, Why have you tor...
_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...
MY FATHER] a title of honour: cp. 2 Kings 2:12; 2 Kings 6:21....
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...
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...
CAME NEAR. — Comp. Genesis 18:23. MY FATHER. — A title implying at once respect and affection. (Comp. 1 Samuel 24:11; 2 Kings 6:21.) Perhaps, however, the word is a corruption of _’im_ (“if”), which i...
וַ יִּגְּשׁ֣וּ עֲבָדָיו֮ וַ יְדַבְּר֣וּ אֵלָיו֒...
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...
THE CURE FOR LEPROSY 2 Kings 5:1 From Assyrian monuments we learn that at this period Syria regained her independence from under the yoke of Assyria, and probably it was during this struggle that Naa...
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...
And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, (g) 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 t...
Father; a title given to masters, kings, &c. The Romans senators were styled, "conscript fathers;" and Homer calls kings "the fathers and shepherds of the people." See Genesis xlv. 8. (Calmet) --- Mas...
Father has the same sense and meaning here, as master. Every master of a family may be said to be the father of it, in this point of view. But what I principally desire of the Reader in this verse is,...
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...
_GREAT THINGS AND SMALL_ ‘My father, if the prophet had did thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?’ 2 Kings 5:13...
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...
AND HIS SERVANT CAME NEAR, AND SPAKE UNTO HIM, AND SAID, MY FATHER,.... Or my lord, as the Targum; this being not a familiar and affectionate expression, but a term of honour, reverence, and submissio...
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,...
_His servants came near_ Though at other times they kept their distance, and now saw him in a passion, yet knowing him to be a man that would hear reason at any time, and from any one, they drew near,...
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....
And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, an address at the same time intimate and respectful, IF THE PROPHET HAD BID THEE DO SOME GREAT THING, something particularly diffic...
THE HEALING OF NAAMAN...
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...
9-14 Elisha knew Naaman to be a proud man, and he would let him know, that before the great God all men stand upon the same level. All God's commands make trial of men's spirits, especially those whi...
MY FATHER; or, _our father_; so they call him, both to show their reverence and affection to him, and to mitigate his exasperated mind....
2 Kings 5:13 servants H5650 near H5066 (H8799) spoke H1696 (H8762) said H559 (H8799) father H1 prophet...
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...
2 Kings 5:1 The little Hebrew maid was torn from her mother and her playmates at the age of seven or eight, and hurried amid all the alarms of war to a foreign land, robbed at once of home, of freedo...
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...
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...
_And his servants came near, and spake unto him._ NAAMAN, A TYPE OF THE WORLD The Syrian Naaman, whose story is contained in the chapter from which our text is taken, was a type of the world. As race...
_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...
SOME GREAT THING If the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? 2 Kings 5:13. Here is a man who was told to do a little thing and found it more difficult than doing...
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...
2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 5:13 HAS HE ACTUALLY SAID...? Naaman’s SERVANTS have been listening more carefully, for Elisha did not speak only of ritual cleansing but of healing (“your flesh shall be resto...
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...
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
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...
1 Corinthians 1:21; 1 Corinthians 1:27; 1 Corinthians 4:15; 1 Kings 20:23;...