These rivers originated from the Hermon (Pharpar) and the Anti-Lebanon Mountains and flow towards Damascus and the eastern desert. But these two rivers probably gave Damascus some of its grandeur, while the river Jordan just flowed through a bushy valley.
12 Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them and be clean?” So he turned and went away in a rage.