2 Kings 5:11

9 Then Naaman went with his horses and chariot, and he stood at the door of Elisha’s house.

10 And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, “Go and ^awash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored to you, and you shall be clean.”

11 But Naaman became furious, and went away and said, “Indeed, I said to myself, ‘He will surely come out to me, and stand and call on the name of the Lord his God, and wave his hand over the place, and heal the leprosy.’

12 Are not the Abanah and the Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them and be clean?” So he turned and went away in a rage.

13 And his ^aservants came near and spoke to him, and said, “My father, if the prophet had told you to do something great, would you not have done it? How much more then, when he says to you, ‘Wash, and be clean’?”

14 So he went down and dipped seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his ^aflesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and ^bhe was clean.

15 And he returned to the man of God, he and all his aides, and came and stood before him; and he said, “Indeed, now I know that there is ^ano God in all the earth, except in Israel; now therefore, please take ^ba gift from your servant.”

16 But he said, ^a“As the Lord lives, before whom I stand, ^bI will receive nothing.” And he urged him to take it, but he refused.

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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2 Kings 5:11

Naaman was wroth - And why? Because the prophet treated him without ceremony; and because he appointed him an expenseless and simple mode of cure.

Behold , I thought - God' s ways are not as our ways; he appoints that mode of cure which he knows to be best. Naaman expected to be treated with great ceremony; and instead of humbling himself before the Lord' s prophet, he expected the prophet of the Lord to humble himself before him! Behold I thought; - and what did he think? Hear his words, for they are all very emphatic: -

1."I thought, He will surely come Out to Me. He will never make his servant the medium of communication between Me and himself.

2.And stand - present himself before me, and stand as a servant to hear the orders of his God.

3.And call on the name of Jehovah his God; so that both his God and himself shall appear to do me service and honor.

4.And strike his hand over the place; for can it be supposed that any healing virtue can be conveyed without contact? Had he done these things, then the leper might have been recovered."

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