Judea and Galilee · both · 179 verses
The chief river of the region, flowing south from the north country into the Sea of Galilee and on to the Dead Sea. The name appears in Genesis, Numbers, Deuteronomy and 18 more in the King James text.
About Jordan River
The chief river of the region, flowing south from the north country into the Sea of Galilee and on to the Dead Sea.
Its place in the story
The Jordan was where John the Baptist preached and baptized. Crowds came to be baptized in its waters as they confessed their sins.
Jordan River in Scripture (KJV)
“And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.”
“I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands.”
“And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.”
“And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abelmizraim, which is beyond Jordan.”
“The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan.”
The chief river of the region, flowing south from the north country into the Sea of Galilee and on to the Dead Sea. The name appears in Genesis, Numbers, Deuteronomy and 18 more in the King James text.
What happened at Jordan River?
The Jordan was where John the Baptist preached and baptized. Crowds came to be baptized in its waters as they confessed their sins.