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...and thou shalt be clean.' This irritated Naaman, who knew better rivers than this provincial stream: '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 flounced off, but his servants (as in 'The...

...shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean. But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, ... 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. And his...

...shrine of his ser[a]glio attended by lov[e]lier houris with more 71 Melville, Gard, 4.26.119—22. "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). The waters of these "rivers...

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...his own pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1857, "Hapless are the favorites of heaven" (Journals 91). 15. "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). The waters of these "rivers...

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...and call on the name of the LORD his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper. 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. II Kings...

...Suffocated in the Black Hole, 123 of the 146 prisoners died overnight. 93 Allusion to 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?" 94 Reference to the rivers Scamander and Simois...