Abana
Or, Amana.
The Abana is the Barada, or true river of Damascus, which, rising in the anti-Libanus, flows westward from its foot and forms the oasis within whic...
Naaman Healed of his Leprosy. This story, familiar to all, presupposes a time of peace between Israel and Syria. As in 1 Kings 20, the king of Syri...
Are not. ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6. Abana. Some codices, and three early printed editions, read "Amana". rivers. Hebrew. nahar ,...
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 aw...
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...
The Healing of Naaman and the Punishment of Gehazi 1. The Lord.. Syria] Possibly the enemies from whom the Syrians had been saved were the Assyria...
Abana and Pharpar ] These two rivers rise in Mt. Hermon and lose themselves in a marshy lake near Damascus. Though smaller, they are much clearer th...
Abana. — So Hebrew text; Hebrew margin, Amana ; and so many MSS., Complut., LXX., Targum, Syriac. (Comp. Amana, Song of Solomon 4:8 , as name of...
THE STORY OF NAAMAN 2 Kings 5:1-27 And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy...
the Cure for Leprosy 2 Kings 5:1-14 From Assyrian monuments we learn that at this period Syria regained her independence from under the yoke of...
When Elijah had felt that he alone was left loyal to God he had been told of seven thousand who had not bowed the knee to Baal. One of these, or perc...
Reader! observe in the conduct of Naaman, what a deadly foe the pride of man is to the reception and enjoyment of our chiefest felicities. And observ...
Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel ?.... Abana is, in the marginal reading, called Amana, and so th...
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 tur...
Are not Abana and Pharpar better than all the waters of Israel How magnificently doth he speak of these two rivers, which watered Damascus, and how...
NAAMAN THE LEPER HEALED (vv.1-19) The history continues in this chapter to focus attention, not on the kings, but on Elisha the man of God. When...
The Cure of Naaman's Leprosy. B. C. 894. ...
Is there not as great a virtue in them to this purpose? But he should have considered that the cure was not to be wrought by the water, but by the...
The Healing Of Naaman, The General Of Aram (Syria) And The Smiting Of Gehazi, The Servant Of Elisha ( 2 Kings 5:1-27 ). This is not only a remarka...
NAAMAN, THE SYRIAN LEPER CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES .— 2 Kings 5:1 . Naaman was a great man with his master —גִּבּוֹר חַיִל does not refer t...
2 Kings 5:1-14 The little Hebrew maid was torn from her mother and her playmates at the age of seven or eight, and hurried amid all the alarms of...
2 Kings 5:12 Naaman was a man who stood high in the highest virtues of the heathen world. He was lifted to the proudest eminence of worldly ambiti...
2 Kings 5:8 . When Elisha heard that the king had rent his clothes, he laid the case before the Lord and received his instruction how to proceed....
Now Naaman, captain of the host of the King of Syria. The History of Naaman’s disease and cure; illustrative of certain forces in the life of man...
But Naaman was wroth, and went away. Pride overcoming want The great man and all his cortege are kept outside, and God’s servant will not even...
Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel. Mr. Evil Questioning tried and executed Proud Self and Evi...
EXPOSITION 2 Kings 5:1-12 THE CURE OF NAAMAN 'S LEPROSY . HIS GRATITUDE ; AND THE SIN OF GEHAZI , The historian continu...
The Healing of Naaman
Are not Abana (or Amana) and Pharpar, mountain streams with clear, fresh water, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? May I no...
2 Kings 2:14 ; 2 Kings 2:8 ; 2 Kings 5:17 ; Ezekiel 47:1-8 ; Joshua 3:15-17 ; Mark 1:9 ; Zechariah 13:1 ; Zechariah 14:8
Are not, &c. — Is there not as great a virtue in them to this purpose? But he should have considered, that the cure was not to be wrought by th...
12 Are not Abanad 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.