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2 Kings 5:12

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 not wash in them and be clean? He thought the cure consisted in the removal of the filth in the flesh by the outward application of water. So he turned and went away in a rage.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 2 Kings 5:12. _ARE NOT ABANA AND PHARPAR_] At present these rivers do not exist by these names; and where they are we know not; nor whether they were the _Orontes_ and _Chrysorroes_. Mr. Maundr...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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 which Damascus is placed. The Pharpar is usually identifi...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    4. NAAMAN AND HIS HEALING CHAPTER 5 _ 1. Naaman, the leper (2 Kings 5:1)_ 2. The testimony of the maid of Israel (2 Kings 5:2) 3. The message to the king of Israel (2 Kings 5:5) 4. Naaman and Eli...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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 Syria addresses the king of Israel (unnamed here) as his...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    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.) Ri...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Are _not Abana_[R.V. ABANAH] _and Pharpar, rivers_[R.V. THE RIVERS] _of Damascus_ There is a marginal reading _Amanah_in the Hebrew, but it is not well supported. The Abanah has been identified with t...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    B. NAAMAN'S CLEANSING 5:8-14 TRANSLATION (8) And it came to pass when Elisha, the man of God, heard that the king of Israel had torn his garments, that he sent onto the king, saying, Why have you tor...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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._ Abana and Pharpar - the Abana (stron...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    5:12 Abanah (c-4) Or 'the Amanah.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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 Assyrians. Naaman, in delivering his countrymen from them, ha...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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 than the Jordan....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE LAST KINGS OF *ISRAEL AND *JUDAH BOOK OF 2 KINGS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 5 NAAMAN’S ILLNESS V1 Naaman was the leader of a king’s army. It was the army of the king of Syria. Naaman’s master r...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    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 a peak of the Lebanon, which is common in the Assyrian...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הֲ לֹ֡א טֹוב֩ _אֲמָנָ֨ה_† וּ פַרְפַּ֜ר נַהֲרֹ֣ות...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE STORY OF NAAMAN 2 Kings 5:1 And Jesus put forth _ his_ hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed. Matthew 8:3 AFTER these shorter anecdotes...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE CURE FOR LEPROSY 2 Kings 5:1 From Assyrian monuments we learn that at this period Syria regained her independence from under the yoke of Assyria, and probably it was during this struggle that Naa...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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 perchance the child of one, stands before us in this na...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Pharphar. Benjamin (p. 53) informs us that the former river serves to water the city, and the second the surrounding gardens. Maundrell could discover no vestiges of these names in Syria, but he desc...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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 observe further, though this Syrian had cause enough, in...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    However, the next chapter (2 Kings 3:1-27) brings us at once into earthly circumstances. "Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of J...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Elisha goes also beyond the borders of Israel in dispensing the blessing of which he is the instrument; and, when the king of Israel is troubled at Naaman's coming, Elisha heals the leprosy of this Ge...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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 the Targum; perhaps from the Mount Amana, from whence i...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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 turned and went away in a rage. Ver. 12. _Are not Abana...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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 scornfully of all the waters of Israel! _May I not...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Naaman, by the report of a captiue mayd, is sent to Samaria to be cured of his leprosie. 8 Elisha, sending him to Iordan, cureth him. 15 He refusing Naamans gifts, granteth him some of the earth....

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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 kings had failed so badly the Lord used a prophet...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    ABANA: Or, Amana...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    9-14 Elisha knew Naaman to be a proud man, and he would let him know, that before the great God all men stand upon the same level. All God's commands make trial of men's spirits, especially those whi...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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 power of God, who might use what means and methods of...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    2 Kings 5:12 Abanah H71 (H8676) H549 Pharpar H6554 rivers H5104 Damascus H1834 better H2896 waters H4325 Israel...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE HEALING OF NAAMAN, THE GENERAL OF ARAM (SYRIA) AND THE SMITING OF GEHAZI, THE SERVANT OF ELISHA (2 KINGS 5:1). This is not only a remarkable story in that it recounts the healing by YHWH of an Ara...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    ABANA Or, Amana....

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    2 Kings 5:1 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 war to a foreign land, robbed at once of home, of freedo...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    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 ambition. He had a generous heart; he enjoyed a well-earned...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Naaman the Syrian healed by obeying Elisha's word. CHARACTERS: God, Elisha, Naaman, maid, Syrian king, king of Israel, Gehazi. CONCLUSION: There is little hope for one who is more concerne...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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. 2 Kings 5:10. _Elisha sent a messenger,_ to cure Naam...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel._ MR. EVIL QUESTIONING TRIED AND EXECUTED Proud Self and Evil Questioning are two of Satan’s firmest allies, and...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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 come out, but sends the message, “Go and wash in Jorda...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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 I. The force of worldly position. Why all the inter...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 5:1 The account of Elisha’s miracles continues with a story that again recalls the ministry of Elijah: the Lord is God not only of Israelites but also of foreigners (compare 1...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 5:9 STOOD AT THE DOOR. Naaman clearly expects personal, immediate attention from Elisha. However, Elisha addresses him only through a MESSENGER and sends him to wash in

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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 to mere physical force, but to the high esteem in which he...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION 2 KINGS 5:1 THE CURE OF NAAMAN'S LEPROSY. HIS GRATITUDE; AND THE SIN OF GEHAZI, The historian continues his narrative of Elisha's miracles, commenced i

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now Naaman was the captain of the host of Syria, he was a great man with his master, he was honorable, because the LORD had actually helped him to subdue many nations. He was a mighty man and very bra...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Kings 2:14; 2 Kings 2:8; 2 Kings 5:17; Ezekiel 47:1; Joshua 3:15;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    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 the water, but by the power of God....

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