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

“ And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman's wife. ”

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

No peace had been made on the failure of Ahab’s expedition 1 Kings 22:1-36 . The relations of the two countries therefore continued to be hostile, and plundering inroads naturally took place on th...
2 Kings 5:2 - 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 5:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

companies . marauding bands. Compare 2 Kings 6:23 .
2 Kings 5:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman's wife. The Syrians had gone out by companies - גדודים gedudi...
2 Kings 5:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman's wife. A little maid - who had been captured in one...
2 Kings 5:2 - 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 5:2 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The Syrians. — Heb., Aram , the word rendered “Syria” in 2 Kings 5:1 . By companies. — Or, in troops , referring to a marauding incursion made at some time prior to the events here recorded....
2 Kings 5:2 - 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 5:2 - 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 5:2 - 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 5:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Was there not an overruling providence in the captivity of this Israelitish damsel? Reader! look at the subject as it really is. The Lord had a mercy in store for Naaman. He causes, therefore, this d...
2 Kings 5:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the Syrians had gone out by companies ,.... Not regular troops, but a sort of banditti of robbers, which made excursions into the land of Israel, to plunder and carry off what booty they could:...
2 Kings 5:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman's wife. Ver. 2. A little maid; and she waited on Naaman'...
2 Kings 5:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Syrians had gone out by companies Making inroads into the land of Israel, to rob and plunder, after the manner of those times. And had brought away captive a little maid The providence of God...
2 Kings 5:2 - 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 5:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Naaman's Leprosy. B. C. 894. 1 Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was...
2 Kings 5:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Gone out by companies; making inroads into the land of Israel to rob and plunder, after the manner of those times. See 1 Samuel 30:8 2 Kings 13:21 , 2 Kings 24:2 . She waited on, Heb. was b...
2 Kings 5:2 - 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 5:2 - 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 5:2 - 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 5:2 - 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 5:2 - 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 5:2 - 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 5:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Testimony of the Slave Girl
2 Kings 5:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 13:17 ; 1 Samuel 13:18 ; 2 Kings 13:20 ; 2 Kings 6:23 ; Judges 9:34 ; Psalms 123:2

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2 Kings 5:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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

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

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

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

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

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

2 Kings 5:2 - Sermon Bible Commentary

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

2 Kings 5:2 - The Biblical Illustrator

2 Kings 5:2 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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

2 Kings 5:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge