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Verse 2 Kings 5:23. _HE - BOUND TWO TALENTS OF SILVER_] It required
two servants to carry these two talents, for, according to the
computation above, each talent was about 120lbs. weight....
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BE CONTENT - i. e. “consent.”...
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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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TAKE. accept. Some codices, with one early printed edition, read "and
accept"....
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_bound two talents of silver in two bags_ The money was put into the
bag, and the opening tied up. The word translated -bags" (LXX.,
θύλακοι) occurs in the list of female finery in Isaiah 3:22 and
is...
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IV. A JUDICIAL MIRACLE 5:20-27
TRANSLATION
(20) But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, thought, Behold
my master has spared Naaman this Aramean by not taking from his hand
that which he br...
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_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...
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BE CONTENT] i.e. consent: cp. 2 Kings 6:3....
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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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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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BE CONTENT. — Be willing, consent to take. The Vatican LXX. omits;
the Alexandrian renders αὐτοῦ, owing to a transposition of the
Hebrew letters (hălô’ for _hô’êl_).
BOUND. — Deuteronomy 14:25.
BAGS...
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וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר נַעֲמָ֔ן הֹואֵ֖ל קַ֣ח
כִּכָּרָ֑יִם...
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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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_Him. The weight must have been considerable, (6000 sicles, ver. 26.,
and Exodus xxxviii. 25.; Haydock) otherwise Giezi would have preferred
carrying them himself, that his master might not know. (Cal...
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I cannot pass over the review of these verses, without desiring the
Reader to stop and remark with me, one or two circumstances which
deserve our observation. What an awful character was this Gehazi!...
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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 NAAMAN SAID, BE CONTENT,.... Or be pleased; do not object to it:
TAKE TWO TALENTS: a talent for each young man, which amounted to
between three hundred and four hundred pounds apiece:
AND HE URG...
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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 [the...
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_He lighted down from his chariot to meet him_ Thereby testifying his
great respect to the prophet his master, _He said My master hath sent
me_, &c. This story of Gehazi was a very unlikely one: Naama...
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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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And Naaman said, Be content, let yourself be persuaded, be pleased to
accept, TAKE TWO TALENTS. AND HE URGED HIM, AND BOUND TWO TALENTS OF
SILVER IN TWO BAGS, probably basket-like sacks, WITH TWO CHAN...
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Gehazi's Covetousness...
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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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20-27 Naaman, a Syrian, a courtier, a soldier, had many servants, and
we read how wise and good they were. Elisha, a holy prophet, a man of
God, has but one servant, and he proves a base liar. The lo...
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HE URGED HIM, who at first refused it upon a pretence of modesty and
obedience to his master's command....
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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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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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_Gehazi, the servant of Elisha._
GEHAZI
The name Gehazi means “valley of vision,” and is appropriate
enough if we think of what Gehazi saw as to the nature of wickedness
when the prophet opened his...
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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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CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.—
2 Kings 5:21. HE LIGHTED DOWN FROM THE CHARIOT—Not merely
dismounted, but quickly did so _sprang out of_ the chariot, נָפל,
to _cast oneself_, to throw oneself, to _r...
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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 Kings 20:7; 2 Kings 12:10; 2 Kings 2:17; 2 Kings 5:16; Isaiah 30:6;...
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Urged him — Who at first refused it upon a pretence of modesty....