 | John Farmer - 1824 - 492 pagine
...call on the name of the Lord, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper. Are not Ahana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the...of Israel ? May I not (wash in them and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage. His servants said to him, if the prophet had hid thee do some... | |
 | 1824 - 400 pagine
...times"—Naaman was highly displeased. " Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus" he exclaimed, '> better than all the waters of Israel ? may I not wash in them, and be clean? Behold 1 thought, he will surely come out to me, and stand, and call upon the name of the Lord his... | |
 | sir John Bayley (1st bart) - 1824 - 774 pagine
...Jehoram, the son of Ahab." (o) ». 17. " Burnt-offering nor sacrifice." " par, 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 his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said,... | |
 | Lady - 1824 - 452 pagine
...indignation. " Are not Abana and Pharpar rivers of Damascus," he exclaimed, "Jbetter than all th« waters of Israel — may I not wash in them, and be clean?** Health, however, was the one thing desired, and the suffer310 ing Syrian was at length persuaded by... | |
 | George Paxton - 1825 - 598 pagine
...adjacent fields, sufficiently account for the indignant reply of Naaman the Syrian, to the prophet ; " 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." The haughty Syrian, piqued that the prophet treated him with... | |
 | Barbara Allan Simon - 1825 - 142 pagine
...his monarch, he was blinded and seduced by worldly wisdom, and thus he reasoned : '• Are not Abna and Pharpar. rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel ? May 1 not as well wash in them to be cured ? So he turned and went away in a rage ; but a wise servant... | |
 | 1825 - 712 pagine
...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... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1825 - 714 pagine
...remedy? have I not oft done thus in vain? have we not better streams at home, than any Israel can afford? "are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel?" Folly and pride strive for place in a natural heart, and it is hard to say whether... | |
 | John Pridham - 1826 - 376 pagine
...or undervalue those " wells of salvation" which he hath opened unto us ; and to say with disdain, " Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better...waters of Israel ? may I not wash in them, and be clean m ?" Let the preaching of the word, and all the means of grace, be regarded as Divine appointments,... | |
 | Bernard Barton - 1826 - 280 pagine
...Feeling and thought came forth to bless, And hear with awe the voice of God. NAAMAN'S PRIDE AND FOLLY. " Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better...waters of Israel ? May I not wash in them and be clean ?"— 2 Kings, v. 12. THUS arrogant, and thus absurd Was he who then the prophet heard : We blame his... | |
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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? 
