2 Kings 5:22 (LSB)

Passage

And he said, “All is at peace. My master has sent me, saying, ‘Behold, just now two young men of the sons of the prophets have come to me from the hill country of Ephraim. Please give them a talent of silver and two changes of clothes.’”

Nearby Context

2 Kings 5:20 Then Gehazi, the young man of Elisha the man of God, said to himself, “Behold, my master has spared this Naaman the Aramean, by not receiving from his hands what he brought. As Yahweh lives, I will run after him and take something from him.”

2 Kings 5:21 So Gehazi pursued Naaman. And Naaman saw one running after him, so he came down from the chariot to meet him and said, “Is all at peace?”

2 Kings 5:22 And he said, “All is at peace. My master has sent me, saying, ‘Behold, just now two young men of the sons of the prophets have come to me from the hill country of Ephraim. Please give them a talent of silver and two changes of clothes.’”

2 Kings 5:23 Then Naaman said, “Be pleased to take two talents.” And he urged him and bound two talents of silver in two bags with two changes of clothes and gave them to two of his young men; and they carried them before him.

2 Kings 5:24 So he came to the hill, and he took them from their hand and deposited them in the house. Then he sent the men away, and they departed.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "said", "peace", "master", "sent", "saying", "behold", "just", and "young". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "said" and "peace", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 21's "So Gehazi pursued Naaman And Naaman saw..." into verse 23's "Then Naaman said Be pleased to take...", so "said" and "peace" belong inside that flow. In 2 Kings context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "said" and "peace" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.