Thematic Bible: Banks of


Thematic Bible



These men crossed the Jordan in the first month of the year during flood season and chased out everyone in the valleys, to the east and to the west.

When the priests who carried the ark entered the Jordan River, as their feet touched the water's edge (The Jordan River overflows all of its banks daily during the harvest season.),


How happy you will be, sowing your seed beside every stream, and letting your cattle and donkeys range freely!"



But when she was no longer able to hide him, she took a papyrus container, coated it with asphalt and pitch, placed the child in it, and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.

ThenPharaoh's daughter came down to the Nile River to bathe while her maids walked along the river bank. She saw the container among the reeds and sent a servant girl to get it.


His eyes are like doves by streams of water, bathed in milk, mounted like jewels.


Look, like a lion comes up from the thicket of the Jordan to a pasture that grows year round, so I'll drive them away from her in an instant, and I'll appoint whomever is chosen over her. Indeed, who is like me? Who gives me counsel? Who is the shepherd who will stand against me?"


As we were coming back, I was amazed to see that there were many, many trees lining both banks of the river.




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