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A Rebuke to Faithlessness
Commentators agree that Elisha's message to the king was a sharp rebuke. By tearing his clothes in despair, the king of Israel acted as if he had forgotten God's power. Elisha's intervention reminds the king—and us—that in moments of crisis, we should turn to God's resources, not despair as if He is absent or powerless.
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Albert Barnes
On 2 Kings 5:8
18th Century
Theologian
He shall know ... Israel—namely, what you (the king of Israel) appear to have forgotten: that there is a prophet, a real prophet of Yahweh, …
Charles Ellicott
On 2 Kings 5:8
19th Century
Bishop
There is a prophet. — With stress on there is (yçsh): that is to say, as his message presupposes.
John Gill
On 2 Kings 5:8
17th Century
Pastor
And it was so, when Elisha the man of God had heard that the
king of Israel had rent his clothes
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Matthew Henry
On 2 Kings 5:1–8
17th Century
Minister
Although the Syrians were idolaters and oppressed God's people, yet the deliverance of which Naaman had been the means is here ascribed to the Lord…