Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 2 King 5:17

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 2 King 5:17 - 5:17

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 2 King 5:17 - 5:17

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two mules’ burden of earth - with which to make an altar (Exo 20:24) to the God of Israel. What his motive or his purpose was in this proposal - whether he thought that God could be acceptably worshipped only on his own soil; or whether he wished, when far away from the Jordan, to have the earth of Palestine to rub himself with, which the Orientals use as a substitute for water; or whether, by making such a request of Elisha, he thought the prophet’s grant of it would impart some virtue; or whether, like the modern Jews and Mohammedans, he resolved to have a portion of this holy earth for his nightly pillow - it is not easy to say. It is not strange to find such notions in so newly a converted heathen.