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2 Kings 5:15

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15 Then he returned to the man of God, he and all his company; he came and stood before him and said, "Now I know that there is no God in all the earth except in Israel; please accept a present from your servant."
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2 Kings 5:15 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 5:15

And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company,
&c.] To give him thanks for the advice he had given him, and by him to give thanks to God for the cure he had received; for he was sensible it was from the Lord, his words show:

and came and stood before him;
for being admitted into the prophet's house, instead of the prophet standing before him, as he before expected, he now stood before the prophet in veneration of him, and sensible of his obligation to him:

behold, now I know there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel;
though he did not before, but his cure fully convinced him of it:

I pray thee, take a blessing of thy servant;
not a wish of health and happiness, which the prophet would not have refused, but a present; the Targum calls it an offering.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

2 Kings 5:15 In-Context

13 But his servants approached and said to him, "Father, if the prophet had commanded you to do something difficult, would you not have done it? How much more, when all he said to you was, "Wash, and be clean'?"
14 So he went down and immersed himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God; his flesh was restored like the flesh of a young boy, and he was clean.
15 Then he returned to the man of God, he and all his company; he came and stood before him and said, "Now I know that there is no God in all the earth except in Israel; please accept a present from your servant."
16 But he said, "As the Lord lives, whom I serve, I will accept nothing!" He urged him to accept, but he refused.
17 Then Naaman said, "If not, please let two mule-loads of earth be given to your servant; for your servant will no longer offer burnt offering or sacrifice to any god except the Lord.
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