2 Kings 5:19

19 And he said to him: Go in peace. So he departed from him, in the spring time of the earth.

2 Kings 5:19 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 5:19

And he said unto him
That is, the prophet said to Naaman:

go in peace:
in peace of mind; be assured that God has pardoned this and all other transgressions:

so he departed from him a little way;
about a mile, as the Targum, and so other Jewish writers; of this phrase, (See Gill on Genesis 35:16), some say a land's length, that is, about one hundred and twenty feet; rather it was a thousand cubits, or half a mile.

2 Kings 5:19 In-Context

17 And Naaman said: As thou wilt: but I beseech thee, grant to me, thy servant, to take from hence two mules’ burden of earth: for thy servant will not henceforth offer holocaust, or victim, to other gods, but to the Lord.

18 But there is only this, for which thou shalt entreat the Lord for thy servant; when my master goeth into the temple of Remmon, to worship there, and he leaneth on my hand: if I bow down in the temple of Remmon, when he boweth down in the same place, that the Lord pardon me, thy servant, for this thing.

19 And he said to him: Go in peace. So he departed from him, in the spring time of the earth.

20 But Giezi, the servant of the man of God, said: My master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving of him that which he brought: as the Lord liveth, I will run after him, and take something of him.

21 And Giezi followed after Naaman: and when he saw him running after him, he leapt down from his chariot to meet him, and said: Is all well?