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New Revised Standard

2 Kings 5:3

She said to her mistress, "If only my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! He would cure him of his leprosy."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Children;   Elisha;   Joram;   Miracles;   Naaman;   Readings, Select;   Servant;   Thompson Chain Reference - Bible Stories for Children;   Children;   Helpful Children;   Home;   Pleasant Sunday Afternoons;   Religion;   Stories for Children;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Missionaries, All Christians Should Be as;   Prophets;   Samaria, Ancient;   Servants;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Elisha;   Syria;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Heal, Health;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Elisha;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Damascus;   Naaman;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Naaman ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Abana;   Naaman;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Elisha;   Gehazi;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Eli'sha;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Israel;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Mistress;   Naaman;   Ophel;   Recover;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
She said to her mistress, “If only my master were with the prophet who is in Samaria, he would cure him of his skin disease.”
Hebrew Names Version
She said to her mistress, Would that my lord were with the prophet who is in Shomron! then would he recover him of his leprosy.
King James Version
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.
English Standard Version
She said to her mistress, "Would that my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! He would cure him of his leprosy."
New Century Version
She said to her mistress, "I wish my master would meet the prophet who lives in Samaria. He would cure him of his disease."
New English Translation
She told her mistress, "If only my master were in the presence of the prophet who is in Samaria! Then he would cure him of his skin disease."
Amplified Bible
She said to her mistress, "I wish that my master [Naaman] were with the prophet who is in Samaria! Then he would heal him of his leprosy."
New American Standard Bible
And she said to her mistress, "If only my master were with the prophet who is in Samaria! Then he would cure him of his leprosy."
Geneva Bible (1587)
And she sayd vnto her mistres, Would God my lord were with the Prophet that is in Samaria, he would soone deliuer him of his leprosie.
Legacy Standard Bible
And she said to her mistress, "I wish that my master were before the prophet who is in Samaria! Then he would cure him of his leprosy."
Contemporary English Version
Some time later the girl said, "If your husband Naaman would go to the prophet in Samaria, he would be cured of his leprosy."
Complete Jewish Bible
She said to her mistress, "I wish my lord could go to the prophet in Shomron! He could heal his tzara‘at."
Darby Translation
And she said to her mistress, Oh, would that my lord were before the prophet that is in Samaria! then he would cure him of his leprosy.
Easy-to-Read Version
She said to his wife, "I wish that my master would meet the prophet who lives in Samaria. He could heal Naaman of his leprosy."
George Lamsa Translation
And she said to her mistress, Blessed would be my lord if he would go to the prophet who is in Samaria! for he would immediately cure him of his leprosy.
Good News Translation
One day she said to her mistress, "I wish that my master could go to the prophet who lives in Samaria! He would cure him of his disease."
Lexham English Bible
She said to her mistress, "If only my lord would come before the prophet who is in Samaria; then he would cure his skin disease."
Literal Translation
And she said to her mistress, Oh that my lord were before the prophet who is in Samaria! Then he would recover him from his leprosy.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and sayde vnto hir mastresse: O that my master were with the prophet at Samaria, he wolde heale him from his leprosy.
American Standard Version
And she said unto her mistress, Would that my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! then would he recover him of his leprosy.
Bible in Basic English
And she said to her master's wife, If only my lord would go to the prophet in Samaria, he would make him well.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And she saide vnto her lady: I would to God my lorde were with the prophet that is in Samaria, for he would delyuer him of his leprosie.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And she said unto her mistress: 'Would that my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! then would he recover him of his leprosy.'
King James Version (1611)
And shee saide vnto her mistresse, Would God my lord were with the Prophet that is in Samaria, for hee would recouer him of his leprosie.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And she said to her mistress, O that my lord were before the prophet of God in Samaria; then he would recover him from his leprosy.
English Revised Version
And she said unto her mistress, Would God my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! then would he recover him of his leprosy.
Berean Standard Bible
She said to her mistress, "If only my master would go to the prophet who is in Samaria, he would cure him of his leprosy."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
`Which damysele seide to hir ladi, `Y wolde, that my lord hadde be at the prophete which is in Samarie; sotheli the prophete schulde haue curid hym of the lepre which he hath.
Young's Literal Translation
and she saith unto her mistress, `O that my lord [were] before the prophet who [is] in Samaria; then he doth recover him from his leprosy.'
Update Bible Version
And she said to her mistress, Oh that my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! then he would recover him of his leprosy.
Webster's Bible Translation
And she said to her mistress, I would that my lord [were] with the prophet that [is] in Samaria! for he would recover him of his leprosy.
World English Bible
She said to her mistress, Would that my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! then would he recover him of his leprosy.
New King James Version
Then she said to her mistress, "If only my master were with the prophet who is in Samaria! For he would heal him of his leprosy."
New Living Translation
One day the girl said to her mistress, "I wish my master would go to see the prophet in Samaria. He would heal him of his leprosy."
New Life Bible
And she said to her owner, "I wish that my owner's husband were with the man of God who is in Samaria! Then he would heal his bad skin disease."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And she said unto her mistress, Ah! would that my lord were before the prophet, who is in Samaria! then, would he set him free from his leprosy.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And she said to her mistress: I wish my master had been with the prophet that is in Samaria: he would certainly have healed him of the leprosy which he hath.
Revised Standard Version
She said to her mistress, "Would that my lord were with the prophet who is in Sama'ria! He would cure him of his leprosy."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
She said to her mistress, "I wish that my master were with the prophet who is in Samaria! Then he would cure him of his leprosy."

Contextual Overview

1 Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man and in high favor with his master, because by him the Lord had given victory to Aram. The man, though a mighty warrior, suffered from leprosy. 2 Now the Arameans on one of their raids had taken a young girl captive from the land of Israel, and she served Naaman's wife. 3 She said to her mistress, "If only my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! He would cure him of his leprosy." 4 So Naaman went in and told his lord just what the girl from the land of Israel had said. 5 And the king of Aram said, "Go then, and I will send along a letter to the king of Israel." He went, taking with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, and ten sets of garments. 6 He brought the letter to the king of Israel, which read, "When this letter reaches you, know that I have sent to you my servant Naaman, that you may cure him of his leprosy." 7 When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, "Am I God, to give death or life, that this man sends word to me to cure a man of his leprosy? Just look and see how he is trying to pick a quarrel with me." 8 But when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, he sent a message to the king, "Why have you torn your clothes? Let him come to me, that he may learn that there is a prophet in Israel."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Would God: Numbers 11:29, Acts 26:29, 1 Corinthians 4:8

with: Heb. before

he would: 2 Kings 5:8, Matthew 8:2, Matthew 8:3, Matthew 11:5, Luke 17:12-14

recover him of: Heb. gather in

Reciprocal: Leviticus 14:3 - be healed 2 Kings 5:13 - his servants 2 Kings 6:12 - Elisha 2 Kings 10:1 - in Samaria 2 Chronicles 6:32 - is come Proverbs 27:18 - so Luke 7:2 - who Luke 23:8 - and he 2 Corinthians 11:1 - Would Ephesians 6:7 - good 1 Timothy 6:1 - count

Cross-References

Genesis 4:25
Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son and named him Seth, for she said, "God has appointed for me another child instead of Abel, because Cain killed him."
Genesis 5:2
Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them "Humankind" when they were created.
Genesis 5:3
When Adam had lived one hundred thirty years, he became the father of a son in his likeness, according to his image, and named him Seth.
Genesis 5:14
Thus all the days of Kenan were nine hundred and ten years; and he died.
Genesis 5:16
Mahalalel lived after the birth of Jared eight hundred thirty years, and had other sons and daughters.
Job 14:4
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one can.
Job 25:4
How then can a mortal be righteous before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
Psalms 51:5
Indeed, I was born guilty, a sinner when my mother conceived me.
Luke 1:35
The angel said to her, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be holy; he will be called Son of God.
John 3:6
What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And she said unto her mistress,.... As she was waiting upon her at a certain time, and perhaps her mistress was lamenting the case of her husband as desperate and incurable:

would God my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria; meaning Elisha, who, though sometimes in one place, and sometimes in another, yet often at Samaria, and it seems was there when this girl was taken captive:

for he would recover him of his leprosy; the maid had heard of the miracles wrought by Elisha, and doubted not that at the request of her lord he would be willing, as she believed he was able, to cure him of this disease.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Kings 5:3. Would God my lord — אחלי achaley, I wish; or, as the Chaldee, Syrian, and Arabic have, "Happy would it be for my master if he were with the prophet," &c.

Here the mystery of the Divine providence begins to develop itself. By the captivity of this little maid, one Syrian family at least, and that one of the most considerable in the Syrian empire, is brought to the knowledge of the true God.


 
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