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Selected Verse: 2 Kings 5:2 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
2Ki 5:2 |
Strong Concordance |
And the Syrians [0758] had gone out [03318] by companies [01416], and had brought away captive [07617] out of the land [0776] of Israel [03478] a little [06996] maid [05291]; and she waited on [06440] Naaman's [05283] wife [0802]. |
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King James |
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. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
a little maid--who had been captured in one of the many predatory incursions which were then made by the Syrians on the northern border of Israel (see Sa1 30:8; Kg2 13:21; Kg2 24:2). By this young Hebrew slave of his wife, Naaman's attention was directed to the prophet of Israel, as the person who would remove his leprosy. Naaman, on communicating the matter to his royal master, was immediately furnished with a letter to the king of Israel, and set out for Samaria, carrying with him, as an indispensable preliminary in the East, very costly presents. |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
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 the one side and on the other. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
The Syrians had gone out by companies - גדודים gedudim, troops. When one hundred or two hundred men go out by themselves to make prey of whatever they can get, that is called, says Jarchi, גדוד gedud, a troop. They had gone out in marauding parties; and on such occasions they bring away grain, cattle, and such of the inhabitants as are proper to make slaves.
A little maid - Who, it appears, had pious parents, who brought her up in the knowledge of the true God. Behold the goodness and the severity of the Divine providence! affectionate parents are deprived of their promising daughter by a set of lawless freebooters, without the smallest prospect that she should have any lot in life but that of misery, infamy, and wo.
Waited on Naaman's wife - Her decent orderly behavior, the consequence of her sober and pious education, entitled her to this place of distinction; in which her servitude was at least easy, and her person safe.
If God permitted the parents to be deprived of their pious child by the hands of ruffians, he did not permit the child to be without a guardian. In such a case, were even the father and mother to forsake her, God would take her up. |
2 And the LORD [03068] sent [07971] against him bands [01416] of the Chaldees [03778], and bands [01416] of the Syrians [0758], and bands [01416] of the Moabites [04124], and bands [01416] of the children [01121] of Ammon [05983], and sent [07971] them against Judah [03063] to destroy [06] it, according to the word [01697] of the LORD [03068], which he spake [01696] by [03027] his servants [05650] the prophets [05030].
21 And it came to pass, as they were burying [06912] a man [0376], that, behold, they spied [07200] a band [01416] of men; and they cast [07993] the man [0376] into the sepulchre [06913] of Elisha [0477]: and when the man [0376] was let down [03212], and touched [05060] the bones [06106] of Elisha [0477], he revived [02421], and stood up [06965] on his feet [07272].
8 And David [01732] enquired [07592] at the LORD [03068], saying [0559], Shall I pursue [07291] after [0310] this troop [01416]? shall I overtake [05381] them? And he answered [0559] him, Pursue [07291]: for thou shalt surely [05381] overtake [05381] them, and without fail [05337] recover [05337] all.