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2 Kings 5:19 Explained in Context
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Verse 19. 19And he said unto him, Go in peace. So he departed from him a little way.
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Quick Meaning
This verse closes the thought unit with its stated result or transition: “And he said unto him, Go in peace. So he departed from him a little way.” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Naaman confesses, Elisha refuses payment, and a compromise remains.”
Read It With
- 2 Kings 5:15–19
Read 2 Kings 5:19 with 5:15–19. The selected wording supplies one closing in the thought unit with its stated result or transition; the surrounding verses supply the causes, responses, and outcome summarized here: Naaman confesses Israel's God, offers a gift that Elisha refuses, requests earth, and asks pardon for supporting his master in Rimmon's temple before leaving in peace.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Within “Naaman confesses, Elisha refuses payment, and a compromise remains,” 2 Kings 5:19 closes the thought unit with its stated result or transition through the wording “And he said unto him, Go in peace. So he departed from him a little way.” Its placement is governed by this reviewed relationship: 2 Kings 5:8–14 establishes this prior movement: Elisha redirects the king, sends Naaman to wash seven times, and the angry commander finally listens to servants and is cleansed. 2 Kings 5:15–19 responds to the pressure, need, word, or action already established; that evidenced relationship, rather than database adjacency alone, explains its placement.
Read 2 Kings 5:15–19 together
Why these verses belong together: 2 Kings 5:15–19 forms one scene or regnal notice: Naaman confesses Israel's God, offers a gift that Elisha refuses, requests earth, and asks pardon for supporting his master in Rimmon's temple before leaving in peace.
Verse 15. 15 And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him: and he said, Behold, now I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel: now therefore, I pray thee, take a blessing of thy servant.
Verse 16. 16 But he said, As the LORD liveth, before whom I stand, I will receive none. And he urged him to take it; but he refused.
Verse 17. 17 And Naaman said, Shall there not then, I pray thee, be given to thy servant two mules’ burden of earth? for thy servant will henceforth offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice unto other gods, but unto the LORD.
Verse 18. 18 In this thing the LORD pardon thy servant, that when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon: when I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon thy servant in this thing.
Verse 19. 19 And he said unto him, Go in peace. So he departed from him a little way.
What Remains True
Religious reform and public worship remain answerable to truth, justice, affected people, complete covenant faithfulness, and consequences beyond a leader's lifetime. This unit tests that truth through the narrated movement: Naaman confesses Israel's God, offers a gift that Elisha refuses, requests earth, and asks pardon for supporting his master in Rimmon's temple before leaving in peace. In 2 Kings 5:19, the concrete line “And he said unto him, Go in peace. So he departed from him a little way” keeps that truth accountable to narrated evidence.
How It Can Shape Life
- The evidence to keep visible in this verse is “And he said unto him, Go in peace. So he departed from him a little way.” Evaluate reform by its actual practices, limits, coercion, treatment of people, and long-term fruit rather than slogans, scale, or a leader's reputation. This response follows from the unit's own sequence: Naaman confesses Israel's God, offers a gift that Elisha refuses, requests earth, and asks pardon for supporting his master in Rimmon's temple before leaving in peace.
Continue in Context
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Read 2 Kings 5:15–19 — Naaman confesses, Elisha refuses payment, and a compromise remainsSources used for this Verse Lens
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: 2 Kings 5:15–19, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 2 Kings
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, royal formulas, clause relationships, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/2Kgs.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 5:15–19
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: 2 Kings with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: A unit-bounded translation comparison plus only the lexical, grammatical, textual, historical, or older-English notes actually printed for these verses; silence is not treated as evidence.
Exact location: NET Bible 2 Kings PDF, printed pp. 633–635, translation and translator notes for 5:15–19
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