Bible Dictionary: Rivers: Abana

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

2 Kings 5:12
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.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Library

The Conversion of Paul.
... bursts upon the traveller like a vision of paradise amidst a burning and barren
wilderness of sand; it is watered by the never-failing rivers Abana and Pharpar ...
/.../history of the christian church volume i/section 31 the conversion of.htm

Mr. Evil-Questioning Tried and Executed
... "Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of
Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean?""2 Kings 5:12. ...
/.../spurgeons sermons volume 6 1860/mr evil-questioning tried and executed.htm

A Little Jewish Maid.
... Why should he bathe in the Jordan River, where the water was clay-white and often
muddy, when he had his own rivers of Abana the golden and Pharpar the sweet ...
/.../anonymous/children of the old testament/a little jewish maid.htm

Naaman
... When told to wash in the Jordan, his pride was touched, and in mortification and
disappointment he exclaimed, "Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus ...
/.../white/the story of prophets and kings/chapter 20 naaman.htm

Naaman the Syrian
... I can fancy Naaman's indignation as he asks, "Are not Abana and Pharpar,
rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? ...
//christianbookshelf.org/moody/men of the bible/iii naaman the syrian.htm

A Little Maid of 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?" he said. ...
/.../lathbury/childs story of the bible/chapter xxix a little maid.htm

Obedience to God the Way to Faith in Christ.
... rarer than the mere obvious duty of obedience to God; we are loth to seek Christ
in the waters of Jordan rather than in Pharpar and Abana, rivers of Damascus ...
/.../newman/parochial and plain sermons vol viii/sermon xiv obedience to god.htm

A Little Maid
... One was a great, rich country, with fine rivers like the Rhine and Danube ... its green,
beautiful plain, thirty miles wide, and the great river Abana, that gushed ...
/.../wells/bible stories and religious classics/a little maid.htm

Baptism unto Repentance
... thought has assumed a gross and material form; and men have attributed to the water
of certain rivers, such as the Ganges, the Nile, the Abana, the mysterious ...
//christianbookshelf.org/meyer/john the baptist/vi baptism unto repentance.htm

The Water of Life;
... is mercifully set before us, for 'what is more free than water, and what more
beneficial and more desirable than life?' Vast and majestic rivers convey but a ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/the water of life.htm

Subtopics

Rivers of Canaan Abounded With Fish

Rivers of Heavy Afflictions

Rivers of Jotbath