The head chef of the Diller Hotel was a man named Malcolm McDonald. Malcolm had left his seaport home in Dundee, Scotland, twelve years ago. Not finding the east coast of America to his liking, he had travelled by railroad to Seattle in ...
Though leprosy sometimes represented divine punishment (2Ki 5:27; 2Ch 26:16 – 23), Naaman's suffering led to a dramatic encounter with the power of God (2Ki 5:15,17). See the article Does God allow pain in order to display his power?
The Aramaean king is happy to lend his support to Naaman's quest by writing a letter to the king of Israel (v. 5a). The large sum Naaman expects to pay for his healing (v. 5b) hints at the elaborateness of the reception and ritual he ...
Translated by Allan Bloom. New York: Basic, 1979. Rundin, John S. “Pozo Moro, Child Sacrifice, and the Greek Legendary Tradition.” Journal of Biblical Literature 123.3 (2004): 425–47. Sadler, John E. Comenius. London: Macmillan, 1969.
Though leprosy sometimes represented divine punishment (2Ki 5:27; 2Ch 26:16–23), Naaman's suffering led to a dramatic encounter with the power of God (2Ki 5:15, 17). See the article Does God allow pain in order to display his power?
5:1-7 Scene 1: Naaman's Quest Naaman, commander of the Aramean king's army, is great (cf. 4:8) in the presence of (before) his master, a valiant warrior through whom the Lord granted victory to Aram (5:1; anticipating the Lord's use of ...
Because Naaman still held his post, he probably had a mild form of the disease, or perhaps it was still in the early stages. In either case, his life would have ... Naaman's quest contrast with the stubbornness of Israel's king (i).
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Naaman had passed through the rst few stages of grief and could no longer deny his illness. ... Her quiet comment reignited Naaman's quest for healing, and within days, Naaman was on his way to Samaria with a letter of request from the ...
Culley, Robert C. 'Punishment Stories in the Legends of the Prophets'. In Orientation by Disorientation: Studies in Literary Criticism and Biblical Literary Criticism, pp. 167-81. Ed. Richard A. Spencer. Pittsburgh: Pickwick, 1980.
9So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariot, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha. ... He did not understand that 5:3-4 The little girl's faith and Naaman's quest contrast with the stubbornness of Israel's king (5:7).