 | 1838 - 1196 pages
...the LORD his God, and * ' strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper. 12 Art not Ví Abana nto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel,...of fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat. And the fa 1 3 a rage. And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said. My father, if the prophet had... | |
 | 1841 - 538 pages
...and recover the leper." He could not " come down." " Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivets of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash...be clean? "So he turned and went away in a rage," and had nearly missed a cure. But " his servants came near and spake unto him, and said, My father,... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. - 1839 - 568 pages
...handle the harp and organ. Gen. xlv. 8. — And he hath made me a father to Pharaoh. (5) 2 Kings v. 13. And his servants came near, and spake unto him,...father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldst thou not have done it ? (6) Gal. iv. 19. My little children, of whom I travail in birth again,... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1838 - 264 pages
...for he knew not the power of that God to whom all things are possible ; and he said, " Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the...may I not wash in them, and be clean ?' So he turned away in a rage. His servants then came near, and said to him, ' My father, if the prophet had bid thee... | |
 | William Fleming - 1838 - 612 pages
...river Jordan seven times and he would be cured of his leprosy, indignantly exclaimed, " Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the...waters of Israel ? May I not wash in them, and be clean У 2 Kings v. 12. Those two rivers, or rather branches of one river, although they cannot now be distinguished,... | |
 | John Leifchild, Redford (Rev. Dr.) - 1838 - 466 pages
...the prescriptions of the prophet, and give up one of his prejudices against Israel : Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the...waters of Israel ? may I not wash in them, and be clean ? Under these circumstances, and with these symptoms, my hearers, the remedy which the Gospel provides... | |
 | Joseph Esmond Riddle - 1838 - 366 pages
...pride, it is rejected with disdain ; and the mind asks, as it were, with haughty Naaman, " Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the...of Israel ? May I not wash in them, and be clean?" Or again :— they do not listen to God's word in a spirit of prayer. There is, in their case, no looking... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1984 - 1078 pages
...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 was, long ago. Naaman was the commander of the Syrian... | |
 | A. Graeme Auld - 1986 - 278 pages
...leper. l:Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them, and be clean?" So he turned and went away in a rage. "But his servants came near and said to him, "My father, if the prophet had commanded you to do some... | |
 | Johanna Manley - 1990 - 1144 pages
...not the Abanah and the Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could es not tempt you because of your lack of self-control....6 But I say this as a concession, not as a command spoke to him, and said, "My father, if the prophet had told you to do something great, would you not... | |
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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? 
