Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the LORD had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, but he was a leper.
Naaman ... was a great man with his master - highly esteemed for his military character and success.
And honourable, х uwnsu' (H5375), exalted, looked up to; Septuagint, tethaumasmenos].
Because by him the Lord had given deliverance unto Syria х la-'Araam (H758); Septuagint, Suria, the name given in the time of the kings to the country north of Canaan]. Yahweh, the God of Israel, is here represented as guiding the destinies of a pagan kingdom-not a mere local deity, as idolaters placed some one or other of their numerous divinities over certain provinces; but the Great Being whose superintending providence is over all the nations of the earth.
But he was a leper. This leprosy, which in Israel would have excluded him from society, did not affect his free contact in the court of Syria.