# Are not Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? "The Abanah and the Pharpar Rivers, in my home country of Aram, are much better than any of the rivers of Israel! # Abanah and Pharpar These are the names of rivers. # Can I not bathe in them and be clean? "I should have just bathed in them and been healed!" # went away in a rage "was very angry as he walked away"