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2 Kings 5:13 KJV
2 Kings · chapter 5 · verse 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 done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?2 Kings 5:13 · King James Version
2 Kings 5:13 in context
11But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the LORD his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.
12Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage.
13And 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, and be clean?
14Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
15And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him: and he said, Behold, now I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel: now therefore, I pray thee, take a blessing of thy servant.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- servantsʻebeda servantH5650 →
- prophetnâbîyʼa prophet or inspired manH5030 →
- fatherʼâbfather, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote applicationH1 →
- spakedâbarperhaps properly, to arrangeH1696 →
- greatgâdôwlgreatH1419 →
- cleanṭâhêrto be pure (physical sound, clear, unadulteratedH2891 →
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We have here the cure of Naaman's leprosy. I. The short and plain direction which the prophet gave him, with assurance of success. Naaman designed to do honour to Elisha when he came in his chariot, and with all his retinue, to Elisha's door, Kg2 5:9.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 9-14