2nd Kings Chapter 5 verse 3 Holy Bible

ASV 2ndKings 5:3

And she said unto her mistress, Would that my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! then would he recover him of his leprosy.
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BBE 2ndKings 5:3

And she said to her master's wife, If only my lord would go to the prophet in Samaria, he would make him well.
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DARBY 2ndKings 5:3

And she said to her mistress, Oh, would that my lord were before the prophet that is in Samaria! then he would cure him of his leprosy.
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KJV 2ndKings 5:3

And she said unto her mistress, Would God my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! for he would recover him of his leprosy.
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WBT 2ndKings 5:3

And she said to her mistress, I would that my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! for he would recover him of his leprosy.
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WEB 2ndKings 5:3

She said to her mistress, Would that my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! then would he recover him of his leprosy.
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YLT 2ndKings 5:3

and she saith unto her mistress, `O that my lord `were' before the prophet who `is' in Samaria; then he doth recover him from his leprosy.'
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 3. - And she said unto her mistress, Would God my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! literally, Oh that my lord were before the prophet who is in Samaria! Elisha had a house in Samaria (2 Kings 6:32), where he resided occasionally. For he would recover him of his leprosy. The "little maid" concludes from her small experience that, if her master and the great miracle-working prophet of her own land could be brought together, the result would be his cure. She has, in her servile condition, contracted an affection both for her master and her mistress, and her sympathies are strongly with them. Perhaps she had no serious purpose in speaking as she did. The words burst from her as a mere expression of goodwill. She did not contemplate any action resulting from them. "Oh that things could be otherwise than as they are! Had I my dear master in my own country, it would be easy to accomplish his cure. The prophet is so powerful and so kind. He both could and would recover him." Any notion of her vague wish being carried out, being made the ground of a serious embassy, was probably far from the girl's thought. But the "bread cast upon the waters returns after many days." There is no kind wish or kind utterance that may not have a result far beyond anything that the wisher or utterer contemplated. Good wishes are seeds that ofttimes take root, and grow, and blossom, and bear fruit beyond the uttermost conception of those who sow them.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(3) Would God.--O that! 'Ahale here; in Psalm 119:5, 'Ahalay. The word seems to follow the analogy of 'ashre, "O the bliss of!" (Psalm 1:1). It perhaps means "O the delight of!" the root 'ahal being assumed equivalent to the Arabic hala, Syriac hali, "dulcis fuit."For he would recover him.--Then he would receive him back. (Comp. Numbers 12:14-15.) In Israel lepers were excluded from society. Restoration to society implied restoration to health. Hence the same verb came to be used in the sense of healing as well as of receiving back the leper. Thenius, however, argues that as the phrase "from leprosy" is wanting in Numbers 12, the real meaning is, "to take a person away from leprosy," to which he had been, as it were, delivered up.