2 Kings 5:11 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

He will surely come out to me - In the East a code of unwritten laws prescribes exactly how visits are to be paid, and how visitors are to be received, according to the worldly rank of the parties (compare 2 Kings 5:21). No doubt, according to such a code, Elisha should have gone out to meet Naaman at the door of his house.

And call on the name of the Lord his God - literally, “of Yahweh his God.” Naaman is aware that Yahweh is the God of Elisha. Compare the occurrence of the name of Yahweh on the “Moabite Stone” (2 Kings 3:4 note).

Strike - Better, as in the margin, “pass the fingers up and down the place” at a short distance. It seems implied that the leprosy was partial.

2 Kings 5:11

11 But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought,c 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.