1.(Placename) a kingdom in SW Asia: coextensive with the biblical Moab, Gilead, and Edom; made a League of Nations mandate and emirate under British control in 1922 and became an independent kingdom in 1946; territories west of the River Jordan and the Jordanian part of Jerusalem (intended...
From Mount Hermon, the river flows south into the Sea of Galilee (also called Kinneret, Lake of Gennesaret, and Lake Tiberias), but it doesn’t stop there. At the southern tip of the Galilee, the Jordan exits and descends south to 420 meters (1,378 feet) below sea level where it e...
Bible Book List Font Size Deuteronomy 3:12-17 Contemporary English Version The Land East of the Jordan River Is Divided (Numbers 32.1-42) Moses said to Israel: 12-17I gave some of the land and towns we captured to the tribes of Reuben and Gad. Their share started at the Arnon River ...
The Arabah and the Jordan River were also a border, from the sea of Chinnereth to the sea of the Arabah (that is, the Salt Sea), beneath the watershed of Pisgah to the east. New Heart English Biblethe Arabah also, and the Jordan and its border, from Kinnereth even to the sea of ...
The Land West of the Jordan River - Nine and a half tribes still did not have any land, although two and a half tribes had already received land east
There is no regular description of the Jordan in the Bible; only scattered and indefinite references to it are given. Jacob crossed it and its tributary, the Jabbok (the modern Al-Zarḳa), in order to reach Haran (Gen. xxxii. 11, 23-24). It is particularly noted as the line of ...
along with all of what he did to the two Amorite kings who were beyond the Jordan River—that is, to King Sihon of Heshbon and to King Og of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth. Majority Standard Bibleand all that He did to the two kings of the Amorites beyond the Jordan?Sihon king of...
Wadi Mujib is a spectacular river canyon known as Jordan’s Grand Canyon. The river enters the Dead Sea over 400 metres below sea level and Moses is believed to have once walked through. 26 | Madaba Map The Madaba Map is an incredible mosaic map of the Middle East created in the 6th ...
31The tribes of Gad and Reuben replied, “We are your servants and will do whatever theLordhas commanded.32We will cross the Jordan River, ready to fight for theLordin Canaan. But the land we will inherit as our own will be on this side of the river.” ...
So the LORD dried up the Jordan River until the Israelites finished crossing it. The kings of the Amorites living west of the Jordan River and the