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 god who vivifies and fertilizes the earth with his rays, like the ἑκηβόλος Ἀπόλλων; and others from רמם = Arab. rmm, computruit, as the dying winter sun (according to Movers and Hitzig; see Leyrer in Herzog’s Cyclopaedia). - The words “and he supports himself upon my hand” are not to be understood literally, but are a general expressly denoting the service which Naaman had to render as the aide-de-camp to his king (cf. 2Ki 7:2, 2Ki 7:17). For the Chaldaic form השׁתּחויתי, see Ewald, §156, a. - In the repetition of the words “if I fall down in the temple of Rimmon,” etc., he expresses the urgency of his wish.

Verse 19
Elisha answered, “Go in peace,” wishing the departing Syrian the peace of God upon the road, without thereby either approving or disapproving the religious conviction which he had expressed. For as Naaman had not asked permission to go with his king into the temple of Rimmon, but had simply said, might Jehovah forgive him or be indulgent with him in this matter, Elisha could do nothing more, without a special command from God, than commend the heathen, who had been brought to belief in the God of Israel as the true God by the miraculous cure of his leprosy, to the further guidance of the Lord and of His grace.

Verses 20-22
Punishment of Gehazi. - 2Ki 5:20-22. When Naaman had gone a stretch of the way (ארץ כּברת, 2Ki 5:19; see at Gen 35:16), there arose in Gehazi, the servant of Elisha,