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2 Kings 5:13

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5:13 His servants approached and said to him, “O master, 1  if the prophet had told you to do some difficult task, 2  you would have been willing to do it. 3  It seems you should be happy that he simply said, “Wash and you will be healed.” 4 

1 tn Heb “my father,” reflecting the perspective of each individual servant. To address their master as “father” would emphasize his authority and express their respect. See BDB 3 s.v. אָב and the similar idiomatic use of “father” in 2 Kgs 2:12.

2 tn Heb “a great thing.”

3 tn Heb “would you not do [it]?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course you would.”

4 tn Heb “How much more [when] he said, “Wash and be healed.” The second imperative (“be healed”) states the expected result of obeying the first (‘wash”).



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