 | George Willson - Elocution - 1840 - 298 pages
...and call on the name of the Lord his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper. Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel ? may I not wash in them, and be clean ? So hie turned, and went away in a rage. And... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1841 - 572 pages
...are said to be such that the question of Naaman, the Syrian, is by no means to be wondered at : — " Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel .'" The city abounds with mosques, many of which were formerly Christian churches. The inhabitants being principally... | |
 | William Goodhugh, William Cooke Taylor - 1841 - 744 pages
...ordered by the prophet Elisha to wash himself in the Jordan, to be cured of his leprosy, exclaimed, "Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel?" The Hebrew marginal reading of this name is AMAXA, which is also the name of one of the summits of Lebanon,... | |
 | John Kitto - Jews - 1841 - 640 pages
...Jehovah, and by the stroking of his hand. He therefore turned and went away in a rage, exclaiming, " Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel ? May I not wash in them and be clean ?" His attendants, however, succeeded in soothing... | |
 | Church history - 1841 - 848 pages
...head, and feet, with those feelings which prompted the Syrian to say, as he turned his back on Jordan, "are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel." And to some instead of righteousness, Christ is a rock of offence. I never saw the... | |
 | Children's periodicals, American - 1841 - 450 pages
...and call on the name of the Lord his God,, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper. Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel ? May I not wash in them and be clean ?" So he drove off in his chariot in a rage.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1912 - 638 pages
...was by a comparison of rivers that he showed his passionate pride in the glories of his own land : ' Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel ? ' Yet, if Jordan were as nothing in comparison with the rivers of Damascus, were... | |
 | Joseph Robinson - Religion - 1976 - 274 pages
...and invoked the LORD his God by name, waved his hand over the place and so rid 12 me of the disease. Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Can I not wash in them and be clean?' So he turned and went off 13 in a rage. But... | |
 | Roland Mushat Frye - Bibles - 1978 - 644 pages
...call on the name of the Lord his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper. 12 Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage. 13 And... | |
 | Mark Twain - Literary Collections - 1984 - 1078 pages
...Kings, chapter v., Naaman boasts extravagantly about them. That was three thousand years ago. He says: "Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? May I not wash in them and be clean?" But some of my readers have forgotten who Naaman... | |
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Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? May I not wash in them, and be clean? 
