Teks -- 2 Kings 5:11 (NET)

5:11 Naaman went away angry. He said, “Look, I thought for sure he would come out, stand there, invoke the name of the Lord his God, wave his hand over the area, and cure the skin disease.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: 2Ki 5:11 - Was wroth

Supposing himself despised by the prophet.

JFB: 2Ki 5:8-12 - when Elisha the man of God had heard that the king of Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, . . . let him come now to me

This was the grand and ultimate object to which, in the providence of God, the journey of Naaman was subservient. When the Syrian general, with his imposing retinue, arrived at the prophet's house, Elisha sent him a message to "go and wash in Jordan seven times." This apparently rude reception to a foreigner of so high dignity incensed Naaman to such a degree that he resolved to depart, scornfully boasting that the rivers of Damascus were better than all the waters of Israel.

JFB: 2Ki 5:11 - strike his hand over the place

That is, wave it over the diseased parts of his body. It was anciently, and still continues to be, a very prevalent superstition in the East that the hand of a king, or person of great reputed sanctity, touching, or waved over a sore, will heal it.

Clarke: 2Ki 5:11 - Naaman was wroth

Naaman was wroth - And why? Because the prophet treated him without ceremony; and because he appointed him an expenseless and simple mode of cure

Clarke: 2Ki 5:11 - Behold, I thought

Behold, I thought - God’ s ways are not as our ways; he appoints that mode of cure which he knows to be best. Naaman expected to be treated with great ceremony; and instead of humbling himself before the Lord’ s prophet, he expected the prophet of the Lord to humble himself before him! Behold I thought; - and what did he think? Hear his words, for they are all very emphatic: -

1.    "I thought, He will surely come Out to Me. He will never make his servant the medium of communication between Me and himself

2.    And stand - present himself before me, and stand as a servant to hear the orders of his God

3.    And call on the name of Jehovah his God; so that both his God and himself shall appear to do me service and honor

4.    And strike his hand over the place; for can it be supposed that any healing virtue can be conveyed without contact? Had he done these things, then the leper might have been recovered."

TSK: 2Ki 5:11 - Naaman // went away // Behold // I thought

Naaman : Pro 13:10; Mat 8:8, Mat 15:27; Luk 14:11

went away : Pro 1:32; Mat 19:22; Joh 6:66-69, Joh 13:20; Heb 12:25

Behold : Pro 3:7; Isa 55:8, Isa 55:9; Joh 4:48; 1Co 1:21-25, 1Co 2:14-16, 1Co 3:18-20

I thought : etc. Heb. I said, etc. or, I said with myself, He will surely come out, etc. strike. Heb. move up and down.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: 2Ki 5:11 - Naaman was wroth // Over the place

Naaman was wroth supposing himself despised and mocked by the prophet. Herein he gives an example of the perverseness of mankind, who are apt to prefer their own fancies before God’ s appointments.

Over the place over or upon the affected part where the leprosy is, without which it seemed to him ridiculous to expect a cure.

Gill: 2Ki 5:11 - But Naaman was wroth with him // and went away // behold, I thought, he will surely come out to me // and call on the name of the Lord his God // and strike his hand over the place

But Naaman was wroth with him,.... On more accounts than one:

and went away; not to Jordan, but from the prophet's house, with an intention to return to his own country:

behold, I thought, he will surely come out to me this he said within himself, making no doubt of it but that he would show him so much respect and civility as to come out of his house to him, and converse with him, or invite him into it and not doing this was one thing made him wroth: and stand; he supposed that he would not only come out, but stand before him, as inferiors before their superiors in reverence, but instead of that he remained sitting within doors:

and call on the name of the Lord his God: he expected, that as he was a prophet of the Lord, that he would have prayed to him for the cure of him:

and strike his hand over the place; wave his hand to and fro, as the word signifies, over the place of the leprosy, as the Targum, over the place affected with it; or towards the place where he worshipped the Lord, as Ben Gersom, toward the temple at Jerusalem; or towards Jordan, the place where he bid him go and wash, as Abarbinel; but the first sense seems best: "and recover the leper"; meaning himself, heal him by the use of such means and rites.