Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Gates » Closed at night
When it was dark and they shut the gate the men went out. I do not know where they went. Pursue them quickly and you will overtake them.
The men pursued them by the road to Jordan to the fords. As soon the pursuers went out they shut the gate.
Jordan » Fords of
David was told of this, so he gathered all Israel and crossed the Jordan. He advanced against them and formed his battle lines opposite them. David formed his lines to meet the Arameans in battle, and they fought against him.
The Ammonites crossed the Jordan to fight the tribes of Judah, Benjamin, and Ephraim. Israel was greatly distressed.
Gideon sent messengers through all the hill country of Ephraim to say: Come down and fight the Midianites! Hold the Jordan River and the streams as far as Bethbarah, to keep the Midianites from crossing them. The men of Ephraim were called together, and they held the Jordan River and the streams as far as Bethbarah.
That night Abner and his men marched through the plains. They crossed the Jordan River and passed through the entire Bithron until they came to Mahanaim.
To keep the Ephraimites from escaping, the Gileadites captured the places where the Jordan could be crossed. When any Ephraimite who was trying to escape would ask permission to cross, the men of Gilead would ask: Are you an Ephraimite? If he said: No, they would tell him to say Shibboleth. But he would say Sibboleth, because he could not pronounce it correctly. Then they would kill him at the Jordan River crossing. Forty-two thousand of the Ephraimites were killed.
The men pursued them by the road to Jordan to the fords. As soon the pursuers went out they shut the gate.
David went to the town of Mahanaim, and Absalom crossed the Jordan River with the army of Israel.
I am less than nothing in comparison with all your love and your faithfulness to me your servant. I only had a stick in my hand when I traveled across Jordan. Now I have become two armies.
He said to them: Follow me! Jehovah has given you victory over your enemies, the Moabites. So they followed Ehud and captured the place where the Moabites were to cross the Jordan. They did not allow anyone to cross.
Gideon and his three hundred men passed over the Jordan. Their pursuit continued.
The king returned to the Jordan River. The people of Judah went to Gilgal to meet the king and bring him across the Jordan River.
Barzillai, the man from Gilead, came from Rogelim with the king to the Jordan River to send him on his way.
Jordan, the river » Fordable in some places
To keep the Ephraimites from escaping, the Gileadites captured the places where the Jordan could be crossed. When any Ephraimite who was trying to escape would ask permission to cross, the men of Gilead would ask: Are you an Ephraimite? If he said: No, they would tell him to say Shibboleth. But he would say Sibboleth, because he could not pronounce it correctly. Then they would kill him at the Jordan River crossing. Forty-two thousand of the Ephraimites were killed.
The men pursued them by the road to Jordan to the fords. As soon the pursuers went out they shut the gate.
Kindness » Instances of » Rahab to the spies
She hid them on the rooftop of the house. She covered them with stalks of flax, which she had laid in order on the roof. The men pursued them by the road to Jordan to the fords. As soon the pursuers went out they shut the gate. Before they laid down to sleep she came up to them on the roof. read more.
She said to the men: I know Jehovah has given you the land and the terror of you has fallen on us. All the inhabitants of the land are afraid of you. We heard how Jehovah dried up the water of the Red sea for you when you came out of Egypt. And what you did to the two kings of the Amorites that were on the other side of Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom you utterly destroyed. As soon as we heard these things we became discouraged. No man had courage because of you. Jehovah your God is God in heaven above and on earth below. I pray that you will swear to me by Jehovah, since I have showed you kindness that you will also show kindness to my father's house, and give me a true token(sign) (pledge of truth); That you will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brothers and sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death. The men answered her: Our life for yours, if you do not reveal our business. It will be, when Jehovah has given us the land. We will deal kindly and truly with you. Then she let them down by a cord through the window for her house was upon the town wall. She lived on the wall. She said: Go to the mountain, lest the pursuers meet you. Hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers return and afterward go your way.
She said to the men: I know Jehovah has given you the land and the terror of you has fallen on us. All the inhabitants of the land are afraid of you. We heard how Jehovah dried up the water of the Red sea for you when you came out of Egypt. And what you did to the two kings of the Amorites that were on the other side of Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom you utterly destroyed. As soon as we heard these things we became discouraged. No man had courage because of you. Jehovah your God is God in heaven above and on earth below. I pray that you will swear to me by Jehovah, since I have showed you kindness that you will also show kindness to my father's house, and give me a true token(sign) (pledge of truth); That you will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brothers and sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death. The men answered her: Our life for yours, if you do not reveal our business. It will be, when Jehovah has given us the land. We will deal kindly and truly with you. Then she let them down by a cord through the window for her house was upon the town wall. She lived on the wall. She said: Go to the mountain, lest the pursuers meet you. Hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers return and afterward go your way.
Rivers » Many, fordable in some places
Like fluttering birds pushed from the nest, so are the women of Moab at the fords of the Arnon River.
The men pursued them by the road to Jordan to the fords. As soon the pursuers went out they shut the gate.
That same night Jacob got up, took his two wives, his two concubines, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok River.