列王纪下 5:13

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

他的僕人上前，對他說：“我父啊，先知如果吩咐你作一件大事，你不是照著行嗎？何況他只是說：‘你去沐浴就得潔淨’呢？”

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
他 的 仆 人 进 前 来 ， 对 他 说 ： 我 父 啊 ， 先 知 若 吩 咐 你 做 一 件 大 事 ， 你 岂 不 做 麽 ？ 何 况 说 你 去 沐 浴 而 得 洁 净 呢 ？

Contextual Overview

⁹ So Naaman went with his horses and chariots to Elisha's house and stood outside the door. ¹⁰ Elisha sent Naaman a messenger who said, "Go and wash in the Jordan River seven times. Then your skin will be healed, and you will be clean." ¹¹ Naaman became angry and left. He said, "I thought Elisha would surely come out and stand before me and call on the name of the Lord his God. I thought he would wave his hand over the place and heal the disease. ¹² The Abana and the Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, are better than all the waters of Israel. Why can't I wash in them and become clean?" So Naaman went away very angry. ¹³ Naaman's servants came near and said to him, "My father, if the prophet had told you to do some great thing, wouldn't you have done it? Doesn't it make more sense just to do it? After all, he only told you, ‘Wash, and you will be clean.'" ¹⁴ So Naaman went down and dipped in the Jordan seven times, just as Elisha had said. Then his skin became new again, like the skin of a child. And he was clean.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

his servants: 2 Kings 5:3, 1 Samuel 25:14-17, 1 Kings 20:23, 1 Kings 20:31, Job 32:8, Job 32:9, Jeremiah 38:7-10

My father: 2 Kings 2:12, 2 Kings 6:21, 2 Kings 13:14, Genesis 41:43, Malachi 1:6, Matthew 23:9, 1 Corinthians 4:15

how much rather: 1 Corinthians 1:21, 1 Corinthians 1:27

Wash: 2 Kings 5:10, Psalms 51:2, Psalms 51:7, Isaiah 1:16, John 13:8, Acts 22:16, Ephesians 5:26, Ephesians 5:27, Titus 3:5, Hebrews 10:22, 1 Peter 3:21, Revelation 7:14

Reciprocal: Genesis 35:2 - clean Ruth 2:8 - my daughter 1 Samuel 9:10 - Well said 1 Samuel 24:11 - my father 1 Samuel 25:17 - that a man 2 Kings 6:12 - Elisha 2 Kings 7:13 - one 1 Corinthians 9:11 - a great 2 Corinthians 11:15 - no Ephesians 6:7 - good 1 Timothy 6:1 - count

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And his servant came near, and spake unto him, and said, my father,.... Or my lord, as the Targum; this being not a familiar and affectionate expression, but a term of honour, reverence, and submission:

if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? something that was hard and difficult to done, or painful to bear, to go through some severe operation, or disagreeable course of physic:

how much rather then when he saith to thee, wash, and be clean? which is so easy to be done; though Abarbinel observes it may be interpreted, the prophet has bid thee do a great thing, and which is wonderful; for though he has said, wash and be clean, consider it a great thing, and which is a wonderful mystery, and therefore do not despise his cure.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Kings 5:13. My father — A title of the highest respect and affection.

Had bid thee do some great thing — If the prophet had appointed thee to do something very difficult in itself, and very expensive to thee, wouldst thou not have done it? With much greater reason shouldst thou do what will occupy little time, be no expense, and is easy to be performed.