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Jordan in the Bible

Meaning: the river of judgment

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Jer 12:5
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Jeremiah 12:5

"If you run with foot soldiers and they have made you weary, then how will you compete with horses? If you have fallen in {a peaceful land}, then how will you do in the thickets of the Jordan?

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Verse ConceptsFalse ConfidenceRunningPeople StumblingThe Region Of JordanTired In ActivityRace
Jer 22:6
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Jeremiah 22:6

For thus says the Lord in regard to the house of the king of Judah:

“You are [as valuable] to Me as [the green pastures of] Gilead [east of the Jordan]
Or as the [plentiful] summit of Lebanon [west of the Jordan],
Yet most certainly [if you will not listen to Me] I will make you a wilderness,
And uninhabited cities.

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Verse ConceptsEmpty CitiesWeed
Jer 22:20
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Jeremiah 22:20


“Go up [north] to Lebanon and cry out,
And raise your voice in [the hills of] Bashan [across the Jordan];
Cry out also from Abarim,
For all your lovers (allies) have been destroyed.

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Jer 39:4
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Jeremiah 39:4

{And then} {when} Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them, and all {the soldiers} [with him], they fled and went out [at] night from the city [by] the way of the garden of the king through [the] gate between the walls. And they went out toward the Jordan Valley.

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Verse ConceptsGarden, NaturalHorticultureComing BetweenTwo Parts Of ConstructionsGardens Attached To Palaces
Jer 41:10
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Jeremiah 41:10

Then Ishmael took captive all the rest of the people who were in Mizpah—even the king’s daughters (ladies of the court) and all the people who remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard had put under the charge of Gedaliah the son of Ahikam. Ishmael the son of Nethaniah took them captive and crossed over [the Jordan] to [meet his allies] the Ammonites.

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Verse ConceptsSurvivors Threatened
Jer 48:8
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Jeremiah 48:8


“And the destroyer will come upon every city;
No city will escape.
The [Jordan] valley also will be ruined
And the plain will be devastated,
As the Lord has said.

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Verse ConceptsDestruction Of CitiesThose Who DestroyNo Escape
Jer 49:19
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Jeremiah 49:19

Lo! like a lion, will he come up from the majesty of the Jordan, unto the pasture perennial, But I will wink - I will make him run away therefrom, Who then shall be the Chosen One whom over it, I may set in charge? For who shall be like unto, me? And who shall appoint me, a time? And who is the Shepherd that shall stand before, me?

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Verse ConceptsChallengesShepherds, As Kings And LeadersInadequate ShepherdingGod Like A LionWho Is Like God?The Region Of JordanLeadership Qualities
Jer 50:44
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Jeremiah 50:44

Lo! as a lion, shall he come up from the majesty of the Jordan, Unto the pasture perennial, But I will wink - I will make them run away therefrom, Who then shall be the Chosen One whom against it, I may set in charge? For who shall be like unto, me? And who shall appoint me, a time? And who is the Shepherd that shall stand before me?

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Verse ConceptsChallengesShepherds, As Kings And LeadersInadequate ShepherdingGod Like A LionWho Is Like God?The Region Of Jordan
Jer 52:7
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Jeremiah 52:7

Then the city was breached, and all {the soldiers} fled and went out from the city [by] night [by the] way of [the] gate between the two walls that [are] at the garden of the king, though [the] Chaldeans [were] all around the city. And they went [in] the direction of the Jordan Valley.

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Verse ConceptsBattering ramsHorticultureComing BetweenCity GatesIsrael Fleeing

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1 Chronicles 19:17
When this was reported to David, he gathered all Israel and crossed the Jordan. He came up to the Arameans and lined up in battle formation against them. When David lined up to engage them in battle, they fought against him.

Judges 10:9
The Ammonites also crossed the Jordan to fight against Judah, Benjamin, and the house of Ephraim. Israel was greatly oppressed,

Judges 7:24
Gideon sent messengers throughout the hill country of Ephraim with this message: “Come down to intercept the Midianites and take control of the watercourses ahead of them as far as Beth-barah and the Jordan.” So all the men of Ephraim were called out, and they took control of the watercourses as far as Beth-barah and the Jordan.

2 Samuel 2:29
So Abner and his men marched through the Arabah all that night. They crossed the Jordan, marched all morning, and arrived at Mahanaim.

Judges 12:5-6
The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan leading to Ephraim. Whenever a fugitive from Ephraim said, "Let me cross over," the Gileadites asked him, "Are you an Ephraimite?" If he answered, "No," they told him, "Please say Shibboleth." If he said, "Sibboleth," because he could not pronounce it correctly, they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. At that time, 42,000 from Ephraim died.

Joshua 2:7
The men pursued them along the road to the fords of the Jordan, and as soon as they left to pursue them, the gate was shut.

2 Samuel 17:22
So David and all the people with him got up and crossed the Jordan. By daybreak, there was no one who had not crossed the Jordan.

2 Samuel 17:24
David had arrived at Mahanaim by the time Absalom crossed the Jordan with all the men of Israel.

Genesis 32:10
I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness You have shown Your servant. Indeed, I crossed over this Jordan with my staff, and now I have become two camps.

Judges 3:28
He told them, “Follow me, because the Lord has handed over your enemies, the Moabites, to you.” So they followed him, captured the fords of the Jordan leading to Moab, and did not allow anyone to cross over.

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Judges 8:4
Gideon and the 300 men came to the Jordan and crossed it. They were exhausted but still in pursuit.

2 Samuel 19:15
Then the king returned. When he arrived at the Jordan, Judah came to Gilgal to meet the king and escort him across the Jordan.

2 Samuel 19:31
Barzillai the Gileadite had come down from Rogelim and accompanied the king to the Jordan River to see him off at the Jordan.


Genesis 13:10
Lot looked out and saw that the entire Jordan Valley as far as Zoar was well watered everywhere like the Lord’s garden and the land of Egypt. This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.

2 Chronicles 4:17
The king had them cast in clay molds in the Jordan Valley between Succoth and Zeredah.

Numbers 22:1
The Israelites traveled on and camped in the plains of Moab near the Jordan across from Jericho.

Numbers 26:3
So Moses and Eleazar the priest said to them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho,

1 Kings 7:46
The king had them cast in clay molds in the Jordan Valley between Succoth and Zarethan.

Genesis 13:10-12
Lot looked out and saw that the entire Jordan Valley as far as Zoar was well-watered everywhere like the Lord's garden and the land of Egypt. This was before God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. So Lot chose the entire Jordan Valley for himself. Then Lot journeyed eastward, and they separated from each other. Abram lived in the land of Canaan, but Lot lived in the cities of the valley and set up his tent near Sodom.


Joshua 5:1
When all the Amorite kings across the Jordan to the west and all the Canaanite kings near the sea heard how the Lord had dried up the waters of the Jordan before the Israelites until they had crossed over, they lost heart and their courage failed because of the Israelites.

Psalm 114:3
The sea looked and fled;
the Jordan turned back.


2 Chronicles 4:17
The king had them cast in clay molds in the Jordan Valley between Succoth and Zeredah.

1 Kings 7:46
The king had them cast in clay molds in the Jordan Valley between Succoth and Zarethan.


Joshua 3:15
Now the Jordan overflows its banks throughout the harvest season. But as soon as the priests carrying the ark reached the Jordan, their feet touched the water at its edge

Jeremiah 12:5
If you have raced with runners
and they have worn you out,
how can you compete with horses?
If you stumble in a peaceful land,
what will you do in the thickets of the Jordan?


Numbers 22:1
The Israelites traveled on and camped in the plains of Moab near the Jordan across from Jericho.

Numbers 26:63
These were the ones registered by Moses and Eleazar the priest when they registered the Israelites on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.

Numbers 26:3
So Moses and Eleazar the priest said to them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho,


Matthew 3:13
Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan, to be baptized by him.

Mark 1:9
In those days Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized in the Jordan by John.


Matthew 3:6
and they were baptized by him in the Jordan River as they confessed their sins.

Mark 1:5
The whole Judean countryside and all the people of Jerusalem were flocking to him, and they were baptized by him in the Jordan River as they confessed their sins.


2 Kings 5:10-14
Then Elisha sent him a messenger, who said, "Go wash seven times in the Jordan and your flesh will be restored and you will be clean." But Naaman got angry and left, saying, "I was telling myself: He will surely come out, stand and call on the name of Yahweh his God, and will wave his hand over the spot and cure the skin disease. Aren't Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them and be clean?" So he turned and left in a rage. read more.
But his servants approached and said to him, "My father, if the prophet had told you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much more [should you do it] when he tells you, 'Wash and be clean'?" So Naaman went down and dipped himself in the Jordan seven times, according to the command of the man of God. Then his skin was restored [and became] like the skin of a small boy, and he was clean.


2 Kings 2:6-8
Elijah said to him, "Stay here; the Lord is sending me to the Jordan." But Elisha said, "As the Lord lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you." So the two of them went on. Fifty men from the sons of the prophets came and stood facing them from a distance while the two of them stood by the Jordan. Elijah took his mantle, rolled it up, and struck the waters, which parted to the right and left. Then the two of them crossed over on dry ground.


1 Chronicles 12:15
These are the men who crossed the Jordan in the first month when it was overflowing all its banks, and put to flight all those in the valleys to the east and to the west.


2 Samuel 19:18
They forded the Jordan to bring the king’s household across and do whatever the king desired.

When Shimei son of Gera crossed the Jordan, he fell down before the king


2 Kings 2:14
Then he took the mantle Elijah had dropped and struck the waters. “Where is the Lord God of Elijah?” he asked. He struck the waters himself, and they parted to the right and the left, and Elisha crossed over.


Joshua 15:5
Now the eastern border was along the Dead Sea to the mouth of the Jordan.

The border on the north side was from the bay of the sea at the mouth of the Jordan.


Psalm 36:8
They are filled from the abundance of Your house;
You let them drink from Your refreshing stream,

Psalm 46:4
There is a river—
its streams delight the city of God,
the holy dwelling place of the Most High.

Revelation 22:1
Then he showed me the river of living water, sparkling like crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb

Isaiah 48:18
If only you had paid attention to My commands.
Then your peace would have been like a river,
and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

Ezekiel 47:5
Again he measured off a third of a mile, and it was a river that I could not cross on foot. For the water had risen; it was deep enough to swim in, a river that could not be crossed on foot.


2 Kings 5:10
Then Elisha sent him a messenger, who said, “Go wash seven times in the Jordan and your flesh will be restored and you will be clean.”

Joshua 3:8
Command the priests carrying the ark of the covenant: When you reach the edge of the waters, stand in the Jordan.”


Genesis 2:14
The name of the third river is the Tigris, which runs east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.


2 Kings 5:12
Aren’t Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them and be clean?” So he turned and left in a rage.


Genesis 2:11
The name of the first is Pishon, which flows through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.


Exodus 1:22
Pharaoh then commanded all his people: “You must throw every son born to the Hebrews into the Nile, but let every daughter live.”


Judges 5:21
The river Kishon swept them away,
the ancient river, the river Kishon.
March on, my soul, in strength!


Joshua 16:8
From Tappuah the border went westward along the Brook of Kanah and ended at the Mediterranean Sea.

This was the inheritance of the tribe of the descendants of Ephraim by their clans, together with


Daniel 8:16
I heard a human voice calling from the middle of the Ulai: “Gabriel, explain the vision to this man.”


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