...Testament, but from the Old. He quotes Naaman's words from 2 Kings 5, who praised the waters of Damascus as 'better than all the waters of Israel. May I not wash in them and be clean?' For Naaman, 'the favorite of the king', was a leper, and his house in Damascus had been turned into...

...Naaman who, bidden by Elisha to wash in the Jordan and be cleansed of his leprosy, cried out, affronted, 'Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel?1 (2) Fuller says of Quarles that he 'drank of Jordan instead of Helicon, and slept...

...in the waters of Jordan, his anger burst out with the indignant exclamation— " Arc not Abana find Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? May I not wash in them and be cluin? So lie turned, and went away in a r.ige." And why this anger? Whence this burst of indignation...

...Old Testament; he quotes the words of Naaman from 2 Kings 5, who praised the waters of Damascus as "better than all the waters of Israel. May I not wash in them and be clean?" For Naaman, "the favorite of the king," was a leper, and his house in Damascus had been turned into...

...after his death, the generation to whom he preached recalled some of their favourites with delight: "Are not Abana and Pharpar rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of lsrael? May l not wash in them and be clean?" (2 Kings 5: 12); "And the king lamented over...

...his hand over the place, and recover the leper. Are not Abana and Pharpar, the 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. And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My...

...sonnet CCLXXVIII, 'The world is too much with us: late and soon'. 123 Abana and Pharpar: 2 Kings 5: 12. 'Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better...of Israel? May I not wash in them, and be clean?' my own Tenth Legion: the Tenth was Caesar's favourite legion. 124 toe ain't goin' to have any beastly...

...Na'aman expresses his nationalistic zeal (Rofe' 1982: 110): Are not Amana and Parpar, rivers of Dammeseq, better than all the waters of Israel? May I not wash in them and be clean? (v. 12). Na'aman expresses his expectations of Elisha in v. 11 and in v. 12 he states the absurdity...

...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...

...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...waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage. 13 And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said,...