The Syrians. — Heb., Aram, the word rendered “Syria” in 2 Kings 5:1.
By companies. — Or, in troops, referring to a marauding incursion made at some time prior to the events here recorded.
Brought away captive... a little maid. — Comp. the reference in Joel 3:6 to the Phœnician traffic in Jewish slaves.
Verse 2 Kings 5:2. _THE SYRIANS HAD GONE OUT BY COMPANIES_] גדודים _gedudim,_ _troops_. When _one hundred_ or _two hundred_ men go out by themselves to make prey of whatever they can get, that is cal...
No peace had been made on the failure of Ahab’s expedition 1 Kings 22:1. The relations of the two countries therefore continued to be hostile, and plundering inroads naturally took place on the one si...
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...
COMPANIES. marauding bands. Compare 2 Kings 6:23....
_had gone out_by _companies_ R.V. IN BANDS. The idea is of plundering parties, who made forays upon their neighbours. So we have in 2 Kings 6:23, -The _bands_of Syria came no more into the land of Isr...
III. A MIRACLE ON BEHALF OF AN ARAMEAN GENERAL 5:1-19 The account of the healing of the leprous Naaman moves through three stages which may be labeled (1) Naaman's condition (2 Kings 5:1-7), (2) Naama...
_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...
5:2 on (a-26) Lit. 'was before.'...
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...
BY COMPANIES] i.e. by raiding bands....
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...
וַ אֲרָם֙ יָצְא֣וּ גְדוּדִ֔ים וַ יִּשְׁבּ֛וּ...
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...
Robbers; soldiers. (Tirinus) (2 Kings iv. 2.) --- Such invaded the dominions of Joachin, chap. xxiv. 2. Irruptions of this nature were then very common, (see Judges xi. 3., and Job i. 15.) and regarde...
Was there not an overruling providence in the captivity of this Israelitish damsel? Reader! look at the subject as it really is. The Lord had a mercy in store for Naaman. He causes, therefore, this da...
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...
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 THE SYRIANS HAD GONE OUT BY COMPANIES,.... Not regular troops, but a sort of banditti of robbers, which made excursions into the land of Israel, to plunder and carry off what booty they could: AN...
_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._ Ver. 2. A little maid; and she waited on Naaman' s...
_The Syrians had gone out by companies_ Making inroads into the land of Israel, to rob and plunder, after the manner of those times. _And had brought away captive a little maid_ The providence of God...
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 the Syrians had gone out by companies, on expeditions for the purpose of making plunder, AND HAD BROUGHT AWAY CAPTIVE OUT OF THE LAND OF ISRAEL A LITTLE MAID, a young girl; AND SHE WAITED ON NAAMA...
THE TESTIMONY OF THE SLAVE GIRL...
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...
WAITED: _ Heb._ was before...
1-8 Though the Syrians were idolaters, and oppressed God's people, yet the deliverance of which Naaman had been the means, is here ascribed to the Lord. Such is the correct language of Scripture, whi...
GONE OUT BY COMPANIES; making inroads into the land of Israel to rob and plunder, after the manner of those times. See 1 SAMUEL 30:8 2 KINGS 13:21, 2 KINGS 24:2. SHE WAITED ON, Heb. was before, i.e. s...
2 Kings 5:2 Syrians H758 out H3318 (H8804) raids H1416 captive H7617 (H8799) young H6996 girl H5291 land...
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 the Syrians had gone out by companies._ THE HEBREW MAID I. Her faith in God. Plainly she had very strong faith; and it was of the right sort. For there are wrong kinds of faith. Mere belief even...
_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...
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...
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 Samuel 13:17; 1 Samuel 13:18; 2 Kings 13:20; 2 Kings 6:23; Judges