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Banks, L. A., The Great Saints of the Bible (1902), 247.
Burrell, D. J., The Wondrous Cross (1898), 279.
Campbell, J. M., Bible Questions (1900), 230.
Campbell, L., The Christian Ideal (1877), 98.
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Horton, R. F., Women of the Old Testament (1898), 232.
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Maclaren, A., Expositions: 2 Samuel, etc. (1906), 359, 368.
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Moody, D. L., Wondrous Love (1875), 169.
Pearse, M. G., Naaman the Syrian, 1.
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Spurgeon, C. H., Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, xv. (1869), No. 892.
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Christian World Pulpit, lxviii. (1905) 93 (G. H. Morrison); lxxiv. (1913) 236 (H. Jeffs), 257 (R. J. Campbell).
Church of England Pulpit, xxx. (1890) 172 (W. P. Walsh); lvii. (1904) 62 (H. H. Henson).
Churchman's Pulpit: Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity, xi. 447 (C. J. Vaughan), 449 (C. J. Perry).
A part of the misery inflicted by the Syrians on Israel was caused by the forays in which their light-armed bands, very much like the borderers on the marches of Wales or Scotland, descended upon the country and carried off plunder and captives before they could be pursued.
In one of these raids they had seized a little Israelitish girl and sold her to be a slave. She had been purchased for the household of Naaman, the captain of the Syrian host, who had helped his king and nation to win important victories either against Israel or against Assyria. Ancient Jewish tradition identified him with the man who had “drawn his bow at a venture” and slain King Ahab. The story is told because it is one of the miracles wrought by Elisha.
Our Saviour's miracles were intended for the lost sheep of the house of Israel, yet one, like a crumb, fell from the table to a woman of Canaan; so this one miracle Elisha wrought for Naaman, a Syrian; for God doth good to all, and will have all men to be saved.1 [Note: Matthew Henry.]