 | 1843 - 488 pages
...reference to a literal obedience to the prophet's instructions. The command could easily be fulfilled. ' But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold,...strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper." Pride, lurking in the leart of the noble, here exhibited itself. He forgot, or knew not, that to the... | |
 | John Alonzo Clark - 1843 - 270 pages
...hardly conceive his disappointment and chagrin. " Behold I thought," said he, " he will surely come to me, and stand, and call on the name of the Lord...Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than A resemblance of hesitating sinners. all the waters of Jordan ? May I not wash in them, and be clean?... | |
 | George Thomas Chapman - Authors, American - 1844 - 324 pages
...to the purpose. Directed by the prophet, for his cure, to 'go and wash in Jordan seven times,' he ' was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought,...waters of Israel? May I not wash in them and be clean ? ' But if he had not happily returned to a better mind, if he had not ' dipped himself seven times... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1844 - 602 pages
...should come again to him, and lie should be clean. Then it was that Naaman was wroth, and went aw;iy, and said, " Behold, I thought he will surely come...leper. Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, hotter than all the waters of Israel ? may I not wash in them and be clean ? So he turned, and went... | |
 | Christian Gottlob Barth - 1844 - 298 pages
...times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean." At this Naaman was very angry, and said, " Behold, I thought he will surely come...recover the leper. Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Da11 1 Kings iv. 1—7. NAAMAN. mascus, better than all the waters of Israel ? may I not wash in them,... | |
 | 1844 - 576 pages
...came out, saying, " Go, and wash in Jordan seven times, and thou shalt be clean," Naaman " was wrath, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, he will...name of the Lord his God, and strike his hand over tin- place, and recover the leper." He tuust be recovered in his own way ; the prophet must come, and... | |
 | Peter Parley (pseud.) - 1865 - 188 pages
...and thou shall be clean. But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, he would surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the...waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned, and went away in a rage." Now this beautiful story may afford instruction to young people... | |
 | 1845 - 702 pages
...Jordan seven times, ana thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou •halt be clean. 11 But Nnamarr en piare, nnd recover the leper. 12 Jire mit Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better thnn all the... | |
 | Théodore Leger - Animal magnetism - 1846 - 462 pages
...of Elisha, who sent a messenger to him, saying ; " Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and thou shall be clean. But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and...strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper," &c. (2 Kings, chap, v.) The laying on of hands was a practice much in use among the Jews. It is by... | |
 | John Leifchild - 1846 - 388 pages
...sign by which their prophets had wrought miracles. " I thought," said Naaman, at the door of Elisha, " He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call...strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper," 2 Kings v. 1 1. Hence their association of miraculous cures with the laying on of hands. Our Lord does... | |
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But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the LORD his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper. 
