 | Henry Scougal - 1822 - 328 pagina’s
...thing to surprise and amaze us here? What better is this than our ordinary entertainment at home ? Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel ? * Such may be the thoughts of profane and ignorant fools; for the outside of this... | |
 | John Venn - 1822 - 460 pagina’s
...goodness of God. He has ordained it, and let us be satisfied and thankful. Let us not say with Naaman, "Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? I thought, surely he would have come out to me, and waved bis hand over me." Rather... | |
 | Charles Bradley - 1823 - 508 pagina’s
...cure me with his blessing? Is my misery fit for his derision ? If water could do it, what needed I to come so far for this remedy ? Have I not oft done...home, than any Israel can afford ? ' Are not Abana and Pharphar, rivers of 'Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel." Folly and pride strive for place,... | |
 | John William Cunningham - 1823 - 378 pagina’s
...lying in darkness. You must not indulge the spirit which prompted the> proud captain of old to ask, " Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel ?" But, whatever be the course which Scripture points out, and to whatever office... | |
 | 1823 - 872 pagina’s
...Barrady or Chrysorrhoas, which waters the city of Damascus and the country about it (2 Kings v. 12.). " Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel ?" The river of Damascus has its fountain in the mountains of Libanus. At its approach... | |
 | Thomas Jeffery Llewelyn Prichard - 1824 - 224 pagina’s
...the Syrian,* when desired by Elisha to bathe in the Jordan, for the cure of his leprosy, exclaimed, ' Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel ? may I not wash in them and • 2 Kings, T. 13. be clean ?' In the capital of the... | |
 | 1824 - 506 pagina’s
...stand and call on the name of the Lord, 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 turned and went away in a rage. His... | |
 | 1873 - 350 pagina’s
...call on the narrie 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 turned and went away in a rage." What... | |
 | 1825 - 712 pagina’s
...feed on ashes; and, not knowing our moral diseases, they say, with their cousin Naanian, the Syrian, Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Jordan? Oh! pity them, my dear friends, and pray for them, for we ourselves were sometimes... | |
 | George Paxton - 1825 - 598 pagina’s
...adjacent fields, sufficiently account for the indignant reply of Naaman the Syrian, to the prophet ; " 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." The... | |
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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? 
