2 Raja-raja 5:7

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Segera sesudah raja Israel membaca surat itu, dikoyakkannyalah pakaiannya serta berkata: "Allahkah aku ini yang dapat mematikan dan menghidupkan, sehingga orang ini mengirim pesan kepadaku, supaya kusembuhkan seorang dari penyakit kustanya? Tetapi sesungguhnya, perhatikanlah dan lihatlah, ia mencari gara-gara terhadap aku."

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Segera sesudah raja Israel membaca surat itu, dikoyakkannyalah pakaiannya serta berkata: "Allahkah aku ini yang dapat mematikan dan menghidupkan, sehingga orang ini mengirim pesan kepadaku, supaya kusembuhkan seorang dari penyakit kustanya? Tetapi sesungguhnya, perhatikanlah dan lihatlah, ia mencari gara-gara terhadap aku."

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Arakian, setelah dibaca oleh raja orang Israel akan bunyi surat kiriman ini, maka dicarik-carikkannya pakaiannya sambil titahnya: Allahkah aku ini, dapatkah aku membunuh dan menghidupkan orang, maka raja itu menyuruhkan orang, supaya kusembuhkan dia dari pada sakit kustanya? Bahwasanya, tiada syak lagi, orang itu mencahari sebab kepadaku!

Contextual Overview

¹ Naaman captayne of the hoast of the king of Syria, was a great man, and honorable in the sight of his maister, because that by him the Lorde had geuen health vnto Syria: He was also a mightie man, & expert in warre [but he was] a leaper. ² And the Syrians had gone out by companies, & had brought out of the countrey of Israel a litle mayde, & she was with Naamans wyfe. ³ 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. ⁴ And he went in, and tolde his lorde, saying: Thus and thus saide the mayd that is of the lande of Israel. ⁵ And the king of Syria saide: Go thy way thither, and I wyll send a letter vnto the king of Israel. And he departed, and toke with him ten talentes of siluer, and sixe thousand peeces of golde, and ten chaunges of raymentes, ⁶ And brought the letter to the king of Israel, conteyning this tenour. Now, when this letter is come vnto thee, beholde I haue therewith sent Naaman my seruaunt to thee, that thou mayest ridde him of his leprosie. ⁷ And it fortuned, that when the king of Israel had red the letter, he rent his clothes, and saide: Am I God, that I should slay, and make a lyue? For he doth send to me that I should delyuer a man from his leprosie: Wherefore consider I pray you, & see how he seeketh a quarell against me. ⁸ Which when Elisa the man of God had heard how that the king of Israel had rent his clothes, he sent to the king, saying: Wherfore hast thou rent thy clothes? Let him come now to me, and he shall knowe that there is a prophet in Israel.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

that he rent: 2 Kings 11:14, 2 Kings 18:37, 2 Kings 19:1, Numbers 14:6, Jeremiah 36:24, Matthew 26:65, Acts 14:14

Amos I God: Genesis 30:2, Deuteronomy 32:29, 1 Samuel 2:6, Daniel 2:11, Hosea 6:1

see how: 1 Kings 20:7, Luke 11:54

Reciprocal: Genesis 50:19 - for am I Exodus 4:8 - that they Leviticus 14:3 - be healed Deuteronomy 32:39 - I kill 1 Samuel 28:9 - wherefore 2 Kings 5:8 - rent his clothes 2 Kings 6:30 - he rent his clothes Ecclesiastes 3:7 - time to rend Isaiah 36:22 - with their Joel 2:13 - your garments Matthew 8:4 - for Matthew 11:5 - the lepers Mark 1:40 - if thou John 5:21 - as

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes,.... As one in great distress, being thrown into perplexity of mind by it, not knowing what to do; or, as some think, at the blasphemy he supposed to be in it, requiring that of him which only God could do:

and said, am I God, to kill and to make alive; or have the power of life and death, which only belongs to the Supreme Being:

that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy; for a leper was reckoned as one dead, his disease incurable, his flesh upon him being mortified by it, see Numbers 12:12 and therefore not supposed to be in the power of man, only of God, to cure; and therefore, in Israel, none had anything to do with the leper but the priest, in the name of God:

wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me; to pick a quarrel with him, in order to go to war with him as he supposed. This seems to have been spoken to his lords and courtiers about him.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He rent his clothes - The action indicated alarm and terror quite as much as sorrow 2 Samuel 13:19; Ezra 9:3; 2 Chronicles 34:27; Jeremiah 36:22.

Consider, I pray you - Jehoram speaks to his chief officers, and bids them mark the animus of the Syrian monarch. Compare the conduct of Ahab 1 Kings 20:7.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Kings 5:7. Am I God, to kill and to make alive — He spoke thus under the conviction that God alone could cure the leprosy; which, indeed, was universally acknowledged: and must have been as much a maxim among the Syrians as among the Israelites, for the disorder was equally prevalent in both countries; and in both equally incurable. See the notes on Leviticus 13:0 and Leviticus 14:0. And it was this that led the king of Israel to infer that the Syrian king sought a quarrel with him, in desiring him to do a work which God only could do; and then declaring war upon him because he did not do it.