Two more of Elisha's miracles are recorded in this chapter. I. The cleansing of Naaman, a Syrian, a stranger, from his leprosy, and there, 1. The badness of his case, ver. 1. 2. The providence that brought him to Elisha, the intelligence given him by a captive maid, ver. 2-4. A letter from the king of Syria to the king of Israel, to introduce him, ver. 5-7. And the invitation Elisha sent him, ver. 8. 3. The method prescribed for his cure, his submission, with much ado, to that method, and his cure thereby, ver. 9-14. 4. The grateful acknowledgments he made to Elisha hereupon, ver. 15-19. II. The smiting of Gehazi, his own servant, with that leprosy. 1. Gehazi's sins, which were belying his master to Naaman (ver. 20-24), and lying to his master when he examined him, ver. 25. 2. His punishment for these sins. Naaman's leprosy was entailed on his family, ver. 26, 27. And, if Naaman's cure was typical of the calling of the Gentiles, as our Saviour seems to make it (Luke iv. 27), Gehazi's stroke may be looked upon as typical of the blinding and rejecting of the Jews, who envied God's grace to the Gentiles, as Gehazi envied Elisha's favour to Naaman.
Naaman's Leprosy. (b. c. 894.)