Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
strike his hand over the place—that is, wave it over the diseased parts of his body. It was anciently, and still continues to be, a very prevalent superstition in the East that the hand of a king, or person of great reputed sanctity, touching, or waved over a sore, will heal it.
ELISHA SENDS HIM TO JORDAN, AND HE IS HEALED. (II Kings 5:8-15)
when Elisha the man of God had heard that the king of Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, . . . let him come now to me—This was the grand and ultimate object to which, in the providence of God, the journey of Naaman was subservient. When the Syrian general, with his imposing retinue, arrived at the prophet's house, Elisha sent him a message to "go and wash in Jordan seven times." This apparently rude reception to a foreigner of so high dignity incensed Naaman to such a degree that he resolved to depart, scornfully boasting that the rivers of Damascus were better than all the waters of Israel.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 2 Kings 5:11:
2 Kings 5:8-12
Isaiah 28:9-10
James 1:19
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