2 Kings 5:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Are not Abanad 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. ”

2 Kings 5:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Abana is the Barada, or true river of Damascus, which, rising in the anti-Libanus, flows westward from its foot and forms the oasis within which Damascus is placed. The Pharpar is usually ident...
2 Kings 5:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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 h...
2 Kings 5:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Are not. ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6. Abana. Some codices, and three early printed editions, read "Amana". rivers. Hebrew. nahar , an ever-flowing stream. (Not nahal, . summer stre...
2 Kings 5:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Are 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. Are not Abana and Pharpar - At prese...
2 Kings 5:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Are 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. Abana and Pharpar - the Abana...
2 Kings 5:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
2 Kings 5:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Abana. — So Hebrew text; Hebrew margin, Amana ; and so many MSS., Complut., LXX., Targum, Syriac. (Comp. Amana, Song of Solomon 4:8 , as name of a peak of the Lebanon, which is common in the Assy...
2 Kings 5:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE STORY OF NAAMAN 2 Kings 5:1-27 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...
2 Kings 5:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Cure for Leprosy 2 Kings 5:1-14 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...
2 Kings 5:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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 n...
2 Kings 5:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Reader! observe in the conduct of Naaman, what a deadly foe the pride of man is to the reception and enjoyment of our chiefest felicities. And observe further, though this Syrian had cause enough, in...
2 Kings 5:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel ?.... Abana is, in the marginal reading, called Amana, and so the Targum; perhaps from the Mount Amana, from whenc...
2 Kings 5:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

2 Kings 5:12 [Are] 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. Ver. 12. Are not A...
2 Kings 5:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Are not Abana and Pharpar better than all the waters of Israel How magnificently doth he speak of these two rivers, which watered Damascus, and how scornfully of all the waters of Israel! May I no...
2 Kings 5:12 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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 pro...
2 Kings 5:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Cure of Naaman's Leprosy. B. C. 894. 9 So Naaman came with his horses and with his...
2 Kings 5:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Is there not as great a virtue in them to this purpose? But he should have considered that the cure was not to be wrought by the water, but by the power of God, who might use what means and methods...
2 Kings 5:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Healing Of Naaman, The General Of Aram (Syria) And The Smiting Of Gehazi, The Servant Of Elisha ( 2 Kings 5:1-27 ). This is not only a remarkable story in that it recounts the healing by YHWH...
2 Kings 5:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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 w...
2 Kings 5:12 - Scofield Reference Notes

Abana Or, Amana.
2 Kings 5:12 - Sermon Bible Commentary

2 Kings 5:1-14 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...
2 Kings 5:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 cur...
2 Kings 5:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

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 i...
2 Kings 5:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION 2 Kings 5:1-12 THE CURE OF NAAMAN 'S LEPROSY . HIS GRATITUDE ; AND THE SIN OF GEHAZI , The historian continues his narrative of Elisha's miracles, commenced i...
2 Kings 5:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Healing of Naaman
2 Kings 5:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Kings 2:14 ; 2 Kings 2:8 ; 2 Kings 5:17 ; Ezekiel 47:1-8 ; Joshua 3:15-17 ; Mark 1:9 ; Zechariah 13:1 ; Zechariah 14:8
2 Kings 5:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Are not, &c. — Is there not as great a virtue in them to this purpose? But he should have considered, that the cure was not to be wrought by the water, but by the power of God.

2 Kings 5:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

2 Kings 5:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

2 Kings 5:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

2 Kings 5:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

2 Kings 5:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

2 Kings 5:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

2 Kings 5:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

2 Kings 5:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

2 Kings 5:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

2 Kings 5:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

2 Kings 5:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

2 Kings 5:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

2 Kings 5:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

2 Kings 5:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Kings 5:12 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

2 Kings 5:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

2 Kings 5:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

2 Kings 5:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

2 Kings 5:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

2 Kings 5:12 - Scofield Reference Notes

2 Kings 5:12 - Sermon Bible Commentary

2 Kings 5:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Kings 5:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

2 Kings 5:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

2 Kings 5:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

2 Kings 5:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Kings 5:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes