 | George Willson - 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... | |
 | Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher - 1840 - 428 pages
...call upon 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 1 May I not wash in them and be clean 1 So he turned and went away in a rage. " And... | |
 | 1851 - 592 pages
...'with the army) were immersed by our pastor, the Rev. B. Horsefield, after an excellent sermon, from 2 Kings, v. 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 ?' At the close of the service a large and deeply... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | Benjamin Davis Winslow - 1841 - 410 pages
...dear brethren, because you want faith in those simple means? Do you not ask with the Syrian Leper, "are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? May I not wash in them, and bo clean?" Are not my inward Baptism and inward Communion... | |
 | 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 - 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 - 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 - 1978 - 644 pages
...and 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 - 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? 
