A certain man. — Josephus says, “a young man named Naaman.” (Comp. 2 Kings 5:1 : “because by him the Lord had given deliverance to Syria.”)
The driver of his chariot. — In the Egyptian and Assyrian monuments, as subsequently in the Greek of the Homeric days, the war-chariot holds but two, the warrior and the charioteer. This is the first place where the chariot, introduced by Solomon from Egypt (1 Kings 10:29), is mentioned as actually used in war. (See subsequently, 2 Kings 9:16; 2 Kings 9:21; 2 Kings 23:30; and compare the proverbial expression of this period, “The chariot of Israel and the horsemen thereof,” 2 Kings 2:12; 2 Kings 13:14.)