
Text -- 2 Kings 5:19 (NET)




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Clarke -> 2Ki 5:19
Clarke: 2Ki 5:19 - -- And he said unto him - There is a most singular and important reading in one of De Rossi’ s MSS., which he numbers 191. It has in the margin ´...
And he said unto him - There is a most singular and important reading in one of De Rossi’ s MSS., which he numbers 191. It has in the margin ´
TSK -> 2Ki 5:19
TSK: 2Ki 5:19 - -- he said : Mat 9:16, Mat 9:17; Joh 16:12; 1Co 3:2; Heb 5:13, Heb 5:14
Go in peace : Exo 4:18; 1Sa 1:17, 1Sa 25:35; Mar 5:34; Luk 7:50, Luk 8:48
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Barnes -> 2Ki 5:19
Barnes: 2Ki 5:19 - -- So he departed ... - This clause should not be separated from the succeeding verse. The meaning is, "So he departed from him, and had gone a li...
So he departed ... - This clause should not be separated from the succeeding verse. The meaning is, "So he departed from him, and had gone a little way, when Gehazi bethought himself of what he would do, and followed after him."
Poole -> 2Ki 5:19
Poole: 2Ki 5:19 - -- Go in peace: these words may contain an answer, either, first, To his last petition, 2Ki 5:18 ; and so the sense may be this, Be not too solicitous a...
Go in peace: these words may contain an answer, either, first, To his last petition, 2Ki 5:18 ; and so the sense may be this, Be not too solicitous about this matter; go, and the peace or blessing of God go along with thee. So the prophet both prays to God to bless and direct him in this and all other things, and intimates that God would do so. Or, secondly, To the former, 2Ki 5:17 ; Trouble not thyself about any of our earth, but go to thy own land, and I wish thee from God, and doubt not but God will give thee, peace, i.e. his favour and other blessings, which are oft contained in this word, if thou dost persist in this religion which thou hast now received. Or rather, this is only a farewell salutation, wherewith the prophet dismisseth him without any further answer to his requests, or instruction about his doubt; which he forbore by the motion of God’ s Spirit, which sometimes gives and sometimes denies instructions to persons or people, as he thinks fit. See Act 16:6,7 . And the prophet by the Spirit’ s direction might forbear to give him particular answers, partly because these matters were not of such importance as to concern the essence or foundation of religion; and partly because he was yet but a novice, and not able to bear all truths, which was for a time the condition of the apostles, Joh 16:12 , nor fit to be pressed to the practice of the hardest duties, which Christ himself thought not convenient for his disciples; Mat 9:14-17 . And therefore he at present accepts of his profession of the true, and his renunciation of the false religion; and of this declaration, that what he did in the temple of Rimmon should not now be (as he had formerly intended and practised it) a religious action towards the idol, but only a civil respect to his master. And what was necessary for him to know further about the lawfulness or sinfulness of that action, the prophet might take another and a more convenient time to inform him.
Haydock -> 2Ki 5:19
Haydock: 2Ki 5:19 - -- Go in peace. What the prophet here allowed, was not an outward conformity to an idolatrous worship, but only a service which by his office he cowed ...
Go in peace. What the prophet here allowed, was not an outward conformity to an idolatrous worship, but only a service which by his office he cowed to his master; who, on all public occasions, leaned on him: so that his bowing down when his master bowed himself down, was not in effect adoring the idols; nor was it so understood by the standers by, (since he publicly professed himself a worshipper of the only true and living God) but it was no more than doing a civil office to the king, his master, whose leaning upon him obliged him to bow at the same time that he bowed. (Challoner) ---
Some assert that the prophet does not even authorize this civil assistance in the temple of idols, but simply tells Naaman to go in peace, and to think no more of his former religion; that he will beseech the Lord not to suffer him to be exposed to the danger. (Junius and Piscator) (Calmet) ---
Some formerly pleaded this example, to excuse their occasional conformity in going to the Protestant churches, as the law required. But the case was very different. Greater perfection is required in the new law. They had not to act in the capacity of Naaman; and their attendance was considered a profession of a false religion. Their directors loudly condemned the practice. They ought rather to have imitated Eleazar, &c., who refused to eat swine's flesh, 2 Machabees vi., and vii. (Worthington) ---
Though the king intended to adore the idol, Naaman referred his worship, to God alone. (Bristow, Mot. 23.; Theodoret, q. 19.; and a Greek interpreter.) ---
The Hebrew term signifies, either to adore mentally, or to bend down; which latter is the sense applicable to Naaman. (Cajetan) (Amama) ---
His "request must certainly refer to the time past, and not to that to come; as if he begged an indulgence in idolatry, or of countenancing his master's idol-worship, by his presence." (Button, Dict.) ---
The Jews foolishly pretend (Calmet) that "the proselyte of dwelling," like Naaman, might return to the service of idols, in his own country, without its being imputed to him. (Selden, Jur. ii. 11.) (Maimonides) ---
The conduct of the Syrian convert, whether past or future, undoubtedly filled him with alarm. If he considered the danger of a merely civil attendance upon the king, in an idolatrous temple, we cannot condemn him for idle scrupulosity; (Haycock) since many have found a difficulty in admitting the lawfulness of such a practice, and have even blamed both Naaman and the prophet. (Greg. de Valentia, &c., ep. Cornelius a Lapide) (Calmet) ---
But if the practice was irreprehensible, as most interpreters assert, the answer of Eliseus might give this assurance to Naaman, and inform him that he need be under no farther apprehension on that account. God in peace. These words do not expressly solve the difficulty; but he mode in which they were uttered might intimate, either that the general would be no longer under that embarrassment, (as we do not read that he ever attended the king of Syria into the temple afterwards) or that God had forgiven his former offences, and particularly the scandalous idolatry which now gave him so much pain. The original, ver. 18, which is generally translated in the present of future, (Haydock) may be better rendered in the past tense, as the Chaldean has it. "In this thing the Lord pardon thy servant. My master going into the temple of Remmon to worship there, and leaning upon my hand, and I worshipped in the temple of Remmon, when I did worship in the temple of Remmon, that the Lord pardon," &c. St. Jerome and the Septuagint seem to have read more correctly, when he, &c. We may also render it in the present tense, "and I worship," or, "am wont to adore;" not that he meant to prevaricate any longer. The Syriac and Arabic read with an interrogation. "When I shall adore....(Calmet; or bow down, Haydock) wil the Lord pardon me?" But this rather increases the difficulty. (Calmet) ---
We may therefore conclude either that Naaman had no decision, or that he had leave to serve his master, (Haydock) in a civil capacity even in the temple; (Menochius; Tirinus; Alex. 2. dis. 7.; Santius, &c.) or, that he obtained pardon for his past transgressions. (Bochart; Calmet, &c.) ---
Earth, as the expression is rendered [in] Genesis xxxv. 16., thoug here it is literally, "at the chosen season;" electo, not verno. The sense is the same. Cibrath, untranslated by the Septuagint, may denote a certain space, or village; (Haydock) "a furrow," of 240 feet long, and half that breadth; (Calmet) "a mile;" (Chaldean; Pagnin) or a portion of time allowed by the law, about a quarter of an hour, during which a mile, or sabbath-day's journey, might be performed. (Tirinus) ---
Protestants, "a little way."
Gill -> 2Ki 5:19
Gill: 2Ki 5:19 - -- And he said unto him,.... That is, the prophet said to Naaman:
go in peace: in peace of mind; be assured that God has pardoned this and all other t...
And he said unto him,.... That is, the prophet said to Naaman:
go in peace: in peace of mind; be assured that God has pardoned this and all other transgressions:
so he departed from him a little way; about a mile, as the Targum, and so other Jewish writers; of this phrase; see Gill on Gen 35:16, some say a land's length, that is, about one hundred and twenty feet; rather it was a thousand cubits, or half a mile.

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NET Notes: 2Ki 5:19 Heb “and he went from him a distance of land.” The precise meaning of כִּבְרַה (kivrah) ...
Geneva Bible -> 2Ki 5:19
Geneva Bible: 2Ki 5:19 And he said unto him, ( k ) Go in peace. So he departed from him a little way.
( k ) The prophet did not approve his act, but after the common manner...

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TSK Synopsis -> 2Ki 5:1-27
TSK Synopsis: 2Ki 5:1-27 - --1 Naaman, by the report of a captive maid, is sent to Samaria to be cured of his leprosy.8 Elisha, sending him to Jordan cures him.15 He refusing Naam...
MHCC -> 2Ki 5:15-19
MHCC: 2Ki 5:15-19 - --The mercy of the cure affected Naaman more than the miracle. Those are best able to speak of the power of Divine grace, who themselves experience it. ...
Matthew Henry -> 2Ki 5:15-19
Matthew Henry: 2Ki 5:15-19 - -- Of the ten lepers that our Saviour cleansed, the only one that returned to give thanks was a Samaritan, Luk 17:16. This Syrian did so, and here ...
Keil-Delitzsch -> 2Ki 5:1-19
Keil-Delitzsch: 2Ki 5:1-19 - --
Curing of Naaman from Leprosy. - 2Ki 5:1. Naaman , the commander-in-chief of the Syrian king, who was a very great man before his lord, i.e., who h...
Constable -> 2Ki 2:1--8:16; 2Ki 5:1-27
Constable: 2Ki 2:1--8:16 - --4. Jehoram's evil reign in Israel 2:1-8:15
Jehoram reigned 12 years in Israel (852-841 B.C.). Hi...
