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— D.L. Moody
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And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, [Am] I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.
2 Kings 5:7 — KJV
Am I God? Leprosy was regarded as a living death. The king of Israel realized that this was a disease that only God could cure, and it was beyond his faith in God to believe that man could be used as an instrument in the hands of the Lord to restore anyone stricken with such a disease as this.
Seeketh a quarrel. Instead of seeing in the request of Benhadad an opportunity for the revelation of the wonderful power of God, the king of Israel looked only at the darker side of the picture. Certainly, he thought, the letter from the Syrian king could not have been written in good faith, but was only a pretext for seeking a quarrel against him. He probably imagined that Benhadad had intentionally sent a request with which it was impossible to comply, in order that he might use it as an occasion for war. Rather than to think of the Lord or His prophet Elisha, Joram thought only of himself, and his utter inability to deal with the situation (see on v. 1).
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