2 Kings 5:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

Are not. ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6.

Abana. Some codices, and three early printed editions, read "Amana".

rivers. Hebrew. nahar, an ever-flowing stream. (Not nahal,. summer stream.) Rising in Mount Hermon and losing themselves in. lake near Damascus.

Damascus. Used of the district, or of the city near which they flowed and were known.

in. rage. One of eleven rulers offended with God's servants for speaking the truth. See note on Exodus 10:28.

2 Kings 5:12

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.