Charles Ellicott Commentary 2 Kings 5:13

"And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?" — 2 Kings 5:13 (ASV)

Came near. —Compare to Genesis 18:23.

My father. —A title implying at once respect and affection. (Compare to 1 Samuel 24:11; 2 Kings 6:21.) Perhaps, however, the word is a corruption of ’im (“if”), which is otherwise not expressed in the Hebrew.

Great thing. —Emphatic in the Hebrew.

Wouldest thou not have done? —Or, would you not do?

He saith. — He has said.

Be clean? — i.e., you shall be clean: a common Hebrew idiom.