Bethabara in the Bible

Meaning: the house of confidence

Exact Match

For Gideon had sent messengers throughout all mount Ephraim saying, "Come down against the Midianites and take from them the waters both of Bethabara and also of Jordan. Then all the men of Ephraim gathered together and came down and took the waters, both of Bethabara and also of Jordan.

These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptising.

Verse ConceptsBeyond JordanBaptism

Thematic Bible



Then again they made an attempt to take him; but he got away from them. And he went again to the other side of the Jordan, to the place where John first gave baptism; and he was there for a time. And a great number of people came to him, saying, John did no sign: but everything John said of this man was true. read more.
And a number came to have faith in him there.


These things took place at Bethany on the other side of the Jordan, where John was giving baptism.


Then Gideon sent through all the hill-country of Ephraim saying, Come down against Midian, and keep the ways across Jordan before they come. So all the men of Ephraim, massing themselves together, kept the ways across Jordan.


References

Hastings

Easton

Fausets

Morish

Smith

Watsons

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain