 | Tawan W. Chester - Religion - 2005 - 164 pages
...call on the name of the LORD his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper. l2 Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better...waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage. l3 And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said,... | |
 | Uebert Snr - Religion - 2005 - 174 pages
...Abana and Pharpa which were a lot cleaner troubled him: "Are not Abana and Pharpa 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" Narnaan could not contain it. The word of God seemed to strip... | |
 | Lawrence Rainey - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 1217 pages
...and Pharphar, rivers of Damascus, better 593 SuM -sudd" is an Arabic W0rd wh{ch has been assimilated than all the waters of Israel? May I not wash in them, and be clean?" into English, designating an impenetrable mass of floating vege3 nyar "near" conflated with the river... | |
 | Timothy Marr - History - 2006 - 280 pages
...shrine of his ser[a]glio attended by lov[e]lier houris with more 71 Melville, Gard, 4.26.119—22. "Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better...Israel? May I not wash in them, and be clean?" (2 Kings 5:12). The waters of these "rivers of Damascus" are mentioned as sources of healing in Omoo 2: 27.... | |
 | Elizabeth A. Schultz, Haskell S. Springer - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 316 pages
...his own pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1857, "Hapless are the favorites of heaven" (Journals 91). 15. "Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better...Israel? May I not wash in them, and be clean?" (2 Kings 5:12). The waters of these "rivers of Damascus" are mentioned as sources of healing in Omoo (27). 16.... | |
 | Richard Harries, Michael W. Brierley - Religion - 2006 - 264 pages
...and thou shalt be clean.' This irritated Naaman, who knew better rivers than this provincial stream: 'Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better...of Israel? May I not wash in them, and be clean?' He flounced off, but his servants (as in 'The Elixir', good servants come out well in this tale) persuaded... | |
 | Michael Taylor - Religion - 2006 - 146 pages
...shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean. But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, ... Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better...waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage. And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My... | |
 | Dr. Clarence Talley Sr. - Religion - 2007 - 108 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...waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage. And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Literary Collections - 2007 - 525 pages
...Suffocated in the Black Hole, 123 of the 146 prisoners died overnight. 93 Allusion to 2 Kings 5:12: "Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better...of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean?" 94 Reference to the rivers Scamander and Simois on the plain of Troy, which would be rivers of discord.... | |
 | Ron Lewis - Religion - 2007 - 186 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...waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage. II Kings 5: 11 -12 God's plan was different from Naaman's. And... | |
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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? 
