2 Kings 5:11 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Naaman was wroth Supposing himself to be despised and insulted by the prophet. And said, Behold I thought, &c. Herein he gives us an example of the perverseness of mankind, who are prone to prefer their own fancies to God's appointments. Big with the expectations of a cure, he had been imagining how this cure would be wrought: and the scheme he had devised was this: He will surely come out to me That is the least he can do to me, a peer of Syria; to me, who am come to him in all this state, with my horses, chariot, and retinue; to me, who have so often been victorious over the armies of Israel. And stand and call on the name of his God On my behalf. And strike his hand over the place Wave it over the afflicted part, where the leprosy is: without which it seemed ridiculous to him to expect a cure.