Jordan, the River

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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• Numbers 34:12 OT

  The border shall go down to the Jordan, and end at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land according to its borders around it.’ ”

• Joshua 3:15 OT

  and when those who bore the ark had come to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests who bore the ark had dipped in the edge of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks all the time of harvest),

• 1 Chronicles 12:15 OT

  These are those who went over the Jordan in the first month, when it had overflowed all its banks; and they put to flight all who lived in the valleys, both toward the east and toward the west.

• Jeremiah 12:5 OT

  “If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? Though in a land of peace you are secure, yet how will you do in the pride of the Jordan?

• Jeremiah 49:19 OT

  “Behold, he will come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoever is chosen, I will appoint him over it. For who is like me? Who will appoint me a…

• 2 Kings 6:2 OT

  Please let us go to the Jordan, and each man take a beam from there, and let’s make us a place there, where we may live.” He answered, “Go!”

• Genesis 13:10 OT

  Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.

• Jeremiah 50:44 OT

  Behold, the enemy will come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation; for I will suddenly make them run away from it. Whoever is chosen, I will appoint him over it; for who is like me? Who will appoint me a…

• 1 Kings 7:46 OT

  The king cast them in the plain of the Jordan, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan.

• 2 Chronicles 4:17 OT

  The king cast them in the plain of the Jordan, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredah.

• Genesis 13:11 OT

  So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves from one other.

• Joshua 2:7 OT

  The men pursued them along the way to the fords of the Jordan River. As soon as those who pursued them had gone out, they shut the gate.

• Judges 12:5 OT

  The Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. Whenever a fugitive of Ephraim said, “Let me go over,” the men of Gilead said to him, “Are you an Ephraimite?” If he said, “No;”

• Judges 12:6 OT

  then they said to him, “Now say ‘Shibboleth;’ ” and he said “Sibboleth”; for he couldn’t manage to pronounce it correctly, then they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. At that time, forty-two thousand of Ephraim fell.

• 2 Samuel 19:18 OT

  A ferry boat went to bring over the king’s household, and to do what he thought good. Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king, when he had come over the Jordan.

• Joshua 3:12-16 OT

  Now therefore take twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, for every tribe a man. It shall be that when the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of Yahweh, the Lord of all the earth, rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the…

• Joshua 5:1 OT

  When all the kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, who were by the sea, heard how Yahweh had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before the children of Israel until we had…

• Joshua 4:18 OT

  When the priests who bore the ark of Yahweh’s covenant had come up out of the middle of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests’ feet had been lifted up to the dry ground, the waters of the Jordan returned to their place, and went over…

• Judges 3:28 OT

  He said to them, “Follow me; for Yahweh has delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand.” They followed him, and took the fords of the Jordan against the Moabites, and didn’t allow any man to pass over.

• Judges 3:29 OT

  They struck at that time about ten thousand men of Moab, every strong man and every man of valor. No man escaped.

• Judges 12:4-6 OT

  Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim. The men of Gilead struck Ephraim, because they said, “You are fugitives of Ephraim, you Gileadites, in the middle of Ephraim, and in the middle of Manasseh.”…

• 2 Kings 2:8 OT

  Elijah took his mantle, and rolled it up, and struck the waters, and they were divided here and there, so that they both went over on dry ground.

• 2 Kings 2:14 OT

  He took Elijah’s mantle that fell from him, and struck the waters, and said, “Where is Yahweh, the God of Elijah?” When he also had struck the waters, they were divided apart, and Elisha went over.

• 2 Kings 5:10 OT

  Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, “Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall come again to you, and you shall be clean.”