* Abana and Pharpar. or, Amana.
This river is evidently the Barrada, or Barda, as the Arabic
renders, the Chrysorrhoas of the Greeks, which taking its rise
in Antilibanus, runs eastward towards Damascus, where it is
divided into three streams, one of which passes through the
city, and the other two through the gardens; which reuniting
at the east of the city, forms a lake about five or six
leagues to the south-east, called Behairat el Marj, or, Lake
of the Meadow. Pharpar was probably one of the branches.
* better.
17 2:8,14 Jos 3:15-17 Eze 47:1-8 Zec 13:1 14:8 Mr 1:9
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