Rivers of Damascus, 2 Kings 5:12. The Abana, (or, Amana), was undoubtedly the present Barada, the Chrysorrhoas of the Greeks. It is a clear, cold, and swift mountain stream, rising in Anti-Lebanon, north east of Hermon, flowing south east into the plain, and near Damascus turning eastward, skirting the northern wall of the city, and terminating 20 miles east in one of three large lakes. It is a perennial river, and so copious, that though no less than nine or ten branches or canals are drawn off from it to irrigate the plain and supply the city and the villages around it, the stream is a large one to the end.

The only other independent river of any size in the territory of Damascus is the Awaj, which crosses the plain south of Damascus, and enters the southernmost of the three lakes above referred to. This is supposed to be the Pharpar of the Bible. As these rivers of Damascus were never dry, but made the region they watered like the Garden of Eden for fertility and beauty, Naaman might well contrast them with most of "the waters of Israel," which dry up under the summer sun. See AMANA.

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. ...
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A Little Jewish Maid.
... heal me. Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the
waters of Israel? May I not wash in them and be clean?". ...
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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. ...
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The Conversion of Paul.
... 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 (which Naaman ...
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Naaman
... the leper." When told to wash in the Jordan, his pride was touched, and in
mortification and disappointment he exclaimed, "Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers ...
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PM Whittier. Patience.
... 5 But, O, we shrink from Jordan's side, From waters which alone can save;
And murmur for Abana's banks And Pharpar's brighter wave. ...
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Obedience to God the Way to Faith in Christ.
... and 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 ...
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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? ...
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The Christian Described
... "What is Jordan? Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all
the waters in Israel? May I not wash in them and be clean?" saith he. ...
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Paul's Departure and Crown;
... 'Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel;
may I not wash in them and be clean?' saith he (2 Kings 5:10-12). ...
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