Place
Jordan River
Approximate location. The area is clear, but the exact site is not.
The river that flows south through the Sea of Galilee to the Dead Sea. The dot marks one point on it. Israel crossed it under Joshua, Elijah and Elisha parted it, Naaman washed in it, and John baptized Jesus in it.
Who passed through
In story order. King James Version.
- Lot, Genesis 13:11
Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.
- Joshua, Joshua 4:9
And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests which bare the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there unto this day.
- Gideon, Judges 8:4
And Gideon came to Jordan, and passed over, he, and the three hundred men that were with him, faint, yet pursuing them.
- David, 2 Samuel 17:22
Then David arose, and all the people that were with him, and they passed over Jordan: by the morning light there lacked not one of them that was not gone over Jordan.
- Elijah, 2 Kings 2:8
And Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped it together, and smote the waters, and they were divided hither and thither, so that they two went over on dry ground.
- Elisha, 2 Kings 2:14
And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote the waters, and said, Where is the Lord God of Elijah? and when he also had smitten the waters, they parted hither and thither: and Elisha went over.
- Naaman, 2 Kings 5:11
But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the Lord his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.
- John the Baptist, John 1:28
These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.
- Jesus Christ, Matthew 3:13
Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him.
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