Jordan

Jordan appears in 202 verses of the Bible, from Genesis to John.

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In the Bible dictionary

Jordan, from the Hebrew Yarden ("the descender"), is the river Israel crossed into the Promised Land and where John the Baptist baptized Jesus.

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Key passages

  • I am not worthy of all the unfailing love and faithfulness you have shown to me, your servant. When I left home and crossed the Jordan River, I owned nothing except a walking stick. Now my household fills two large camps!

    Genesis 32:10 · Read the chapter
  • The Amalekites live in the Negev, and the Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites live in the hill country. The Canaanites live along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea and along the Jordan Valley.”

    Numbers 13:29 · Read the chapter
  • These are the words that Moses spoke to all the people of Israel while they were in the wilderness east of the Jordan River. They were camped in the Jordan Valley near Suph, between Paran on one side and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Di-zahab on the other.

    Deuteronomy 1:1 · Read the chapter
  • “Moses my servant is dead. Therefore, the time has come for you to lead these people, the Israelites, across the Jordan River into the land I am giving them.

    Joshua 1:2 · Read the chapter
  • While the servants were waiting, Ehud escaped, passing the stone idols on his way to Seirah.

    Judges 3:26 · Read the chapter
  • But there were some scoundrels who complained, “How can this man save us?” And they scorned him and refused to bring him gifts. But Saul ignored them. [Nahash, king of the Ammonites, had been grievously oppressing the people of Gad and Reuben who lived east of the Jordan River. He gouged out the right eye of each of the Israelites living there, and he didn’t allow anyone to come and rescue them. In fact, of all the Israelites east of the Jordan, there wasn’t a single one whose right eye Nahash had not gouged out. But there were 7,000 men who had escaped from the Ammonites, and they had settled in Jabesh-gilead.]

    1 Samuel 10:27 · Read the chapter

Every verse (202)

2 Chronicles
2Ch 4:17
Isaiah
Isa 9:1
Ezekiel
Eze 47:18
Zechariah
Zec 11:3

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