Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Kings 5:7

7 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 leprosie? Wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me .

Either, in detestation of his Blasphemy, in giving Gods Perfections to him: or rather, for grief, arising from a suspition and fear that the Syrian made this onely a pretence for the War which he designed against him.

He expresseth it thus, because Leprosy is a kind or degree of Death, Numb. 12. 12. and he thought it as impossible to cure it, as to raise the Dead.

For not doing what he requires, which he knows impossible for me to do.

Marginal references: Deut. 32. 39. and 1 Sam. 2. 6.