2nd Kings Chapter 5 verse 9 Holy Bible
So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariots, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha.
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So Naaman, with all his horses and his carriages, came to the door of Elisha's house.
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And Naaman came with his horses and with his chariot, and stood at the doorway of the house of Elisha.
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So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariot, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha.
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So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariot, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha.
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So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariots, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha.
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And Naaman cometh, with his horses and with his chariot, and standeth at the opening of the house for Elisha;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 9. - So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariot. The Syrians had had chariots, and used horses to draw them, from a remote date. The Hyksos, who introduced horses and chariots into Egypt, though not exactly a Syrian people, entered Egypt from Syria; and in all the Syrian wars of the Egyptians, which began about B.C. 1600, we find their adversaries employing a chariot force. In one representation of a fight between the Egyptians and a people invading Egypt from' Syria, the war-chariots of the latter are drawn by four oxen; but generally the horse was used on both sides. Syria imported her horses and chariots from Egypt (1 Kings 10:29), and, as appears from this passage, employed them for peaceful as well as for warlike purposes. There was a similar employment of them from a very early time in Egypt (see Genesis 41:43; Genesis 50:9). And stood at the door of the house of Elisha. Elisha was at this time residing in Samaria, whether in his own house or not we cannot say. His abode was probably a humble one; and when the great general, accompanied by his cavalcade of followers, drew up before it, he had, we may be sure, no intention of dismounting and entering. What he expected he tells us himself in ver. 11. The prophet regarded his pride and self-conceit as deserving of a rebuke.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(9) With his horses and with his chariot.--Chariots. (See on 2Kings 2:11-12; and comp. 2Kings 5:15, infra.) The proper term for a single chariot is used in 2Kings 5:21. The magnificence of his retinue is suggested.Stood.--Stopped. The text hardly conveys, as Bahr thinks, the idea that Elisha's house in Samaria was "a poor hovel," which the great man would not deign to enter, but waited for the prophet to come forth to him. The prophet had "a messenger" (2Kings 5:10) at his command.
