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Boyd’s Bible Dictionary
:
(pleasantness). (1) The leprous
Syrian
, cured by
Elisha
’s orders (2 Kings 5). (2) Founder of the
Naamites
(
Gen. 46:21
21
And the sons of Benjamin were Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard. (Genesis 46:21)
;
Num. 26:40
40
And the sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: of Ard, the family of the Ardites: and of Naaman, the family of the Naamites. (Numbers 26:40)
).
Concise Bible Dictionary
:
1.
Son
of
Benjamin
(
Gen. 46:21
21
And the sons of Benjamin were Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard. (Genesis 46:21)
).
2.
Son of
Bela
, a, son of Benjamin (
Num. 26:40
40
And the sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: of Ard, the family of the Ardites: and of Naaman, the family of the Naamites. (Numbers 26:40)
;
1 Chron. 8:4,7
4
And Abishua, and Naaman, and Ahoah, (1 Chronicles 8:4)
7
And Naaman, and Ahiah, and Gera, he removed them, and begat Uzza, and Ahihud. (1 Chronicles 8:7)
).
3.
A
Syrian
captain
, who, in
the
days of
Joram
king of
Israel
, was cured of his
leprosy
through
Elisha
the
prophet
. The inherent pride of the human
heart
, which always rejects
God
’s sovereign
right
and hence His way of
blessing
nearly prevented Naaman being cured. He had his own thoughts
about
how the prophet should
have
cured
him
, and asked if the rivers of
Damascus
were not better than the
Jordan
. But when his servants reasoned
with
him he went to the
river
(typical of
death
), dipped himself
seven
times
, and was cured.
This
is an illustration of the
truth
that
there
is no blessing
for
sinful
man
but through death:
all
is in
resurrection
and in
Christ
Jesus
. When Naaman was cleansed he could stand before the man of God, and gladly confess that there was no God in all the
earth
but in Israel. He would
offer
no
sacrifice
to
other
gods
, but
only
unto
Jehovah
. He now had an exercised
conscience
, and, fearing the consequences of making a stand against
the
world
, he asked that Jehovah
might
pardon
him when as a
servant
he went into the idol’s
temple
with his
master
. Elisha simply answered, “Go in
peace
.” This was not the
acceptance
of a compromise, but setting Naaman in the path of
liberty
and peace, the sense of
grace
was not to be enfeebled in his
soul
.
Sin
has no dominion over those under grace. He asked for two mules’
burden
of
Canaan
’s earth, no doubt with the thought of making an
altar
therewith. The whole story is a
beautiful
instance of the grace of God going out to a
heathen
; the
faith
of the
little
maid who, though in
captivity
, did not forget the prophet of Jehovah, and who sought the
welfare
of those among whom her
lot
was
cast
, is
also
an interesting feature (
2 Kings 5:1-27
1
Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him the Lord had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valor, but he was a leper.
2
And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman's wife.
3
And she said unto her mistress, Would God my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! for he would recover him of his leprosy.
4
And one went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and thus said the maid that is of the land of Israel.
5
And the king of Syria said, Go to, go, and I will send a letter unto the king of Israel. And he departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of raiment.
6
And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, Now when this letter is come unto thee, behold, I have therewith sent Naaman my servant to thee, that thou mayest recover him of his leprosy.
7
And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.
8
And it was so, when Elisha the man of God had heard that the king of Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, Wherefore hast thou rent thy clothes? let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.
9
So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariot, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha.
10
And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean.
11
But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the Lord his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.
12
Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage.
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?
14
Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
15
And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him: and he said, Behold, now I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel: now therefore, I pray thee, take a blessing of thy servant.
16
But he said, As the Lord liveth, before whom I stand, I will receive none. And he urged him to take it; but he refused.
17
And Naaman said, Shall there not then, I pray thee, be given to thy servant two mules' burden of earth? for thy servant will henceforth offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice unto other gods, but unto the Lord.
18
In this thing the Lord pardon thy servant, that when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon: when I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, the Lord pardon thy servant in this thing.
19
And he said unto him, Go in peace. So he departed from him a little way.
20
But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought: but, as the Lord liveth, I will run after him, and take somewhat of him.
21
So Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman saw him running after him, he lighted down from the chariot to meet him, and said, Is all well?
22
And he said, All is well. My master hath sent me, saying, Behold, even now there be come to me from mount Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets: give them, I pray thee, a talent of silver, and two changes of garments.
23
And Naaman said, Be content, take two talents. And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of garments, and laid them upon two of his servants; and they bare them before him.
24
And when he came to the tower, he took them from their hand, and bestowed them in the house: and he let the men go, and they departed.
25
But he went in, and stood before his master. And Elisha said unto him, Whence comest thou, Gehazi? And he said, Thy servant went no whither.
26
And he said unto him, Went not mine heart with thee, when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and maidservants?
27
The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow. (2 Kings 5:1‑27)
;
Luke 4:27
27
And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian. (Luke 4:27)
).
Jackson’s
Dictionary of Scripture Proper Names
:
pleasantness
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