Verse | Translation | Text |
2Ki 5:12 | Strong Concordance | Are not Abana [071] [0549] and Pharpar [06554], rivers [05104] of Damascus [01834], better [02896] than all the waters [04325] of Israel [03478]? may I not wash [07364] in them, and be clean [02891]? So he turned [06437] and went away [03212] in a rage [02534]. |
King James | 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. |
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
Abana and Pharpar--the Barrady and one of its five tributaries--uncertain which. The waters of Damascus are still highly extolled by their inhabitants for their purity and coldness. |