place
Jordan
יַרְדֵּןἸορδάνης
The Jordan River and its surrounding region played a significant role in the history of Israel, from the time of the patriarchs to the New Testament era.
- verses
- 179
- first named
- Genesis 13:10
- last named
- John 10:40
- feature
- river
- coordinates
- 31.76°N · 35.56°E
Jordan River (OpenBible)
Scholarship offers 2 identifications for this place. The leading one is shown; the others are recorded in the gazetteer.
Description
Jordan in the text
The Jordan River, the most prominent river in the Bible, flows from north to south through the Jordan Valley and empties into the Dead Sea. The river and its surrounding region, also known as the Jordan Valley or the Plain of Jordan, are mentioned numerous times throughout the Old and New Testaments. The Jordan River formed the eastern boundary of the Promised Land (Numbers 34:12) and was crossed by the Israelites under Joshua's leadership when they entered Canaan (Joshua 3-4). The river also served as a boundary between the tribes settling east and west of the Jordan (Joshua 22:25). Several significant events took place along the Jordan, including the parting of the river for Elijah and Elisha (2Ki.2.6-14), Naaman's healing (2Ki.5.10-14), and John the Baptist's ministry of baptism (Matthew 3:5-6; Mrk.1.5). The Jordan Valley was known for its fertile land, as seen in Lot's choice to settle there (Genesis 13:10-11). The region also served as a refuge for Elijah (1Ki.17.3-5) and David (2Sa.17.22-24). In the New Testament, Jesus was baptized in the Jordan River (Matthew 3:13; Mrk.1.9) and conducted ministry in the region (Matthew 4:25; 19:1). The Jordan River and its surrounding area continue to hold great significance for Christians, Jews, and Muslims today.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
The pattern
Where Jordan is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
179 verses across 21 of 66 books; 45 write the name nowhere. Named in Genesis (5), Numbers (20), Deuteronomy (26), Joshua (58), Judges (11), 1 Samuel (2), 2 Samuel (13), 1 Kings (4), 2 Kings (9), 1 Chronicles (5), 2 Chronicles (1), Job (1), Psalms (3), Isaiah (1), Jeremiah (3), Ezekiel (1), Zechariah (1), Matthew (6), Mark (4), Luke (2) and John (3).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 179, across 21 books. The name is written 197 times in them.
Genesis5 verses
Numbers20 verses
13:2922:126:326:6331:1232:532:1932:2132:2932:3233:4833:4933:5033:5134:1234:1535:135:1035:1436:13
Deuteronomy26 verses
1:11:52:293:83:173:203:253:274:214:224:264:414:464:474:499:111:3011:3112:1027:227:427:1230:1831:231:1332:47
Joshua58 verses
1:21:111:141:152:72:103:13:83:113:133:143:153:174:14:34:54:74:84:94:104:164:174:184:194:204:224:235:17:79:19:1012:112:713:813:2313:2713:3214:315:516:116:717:518:718:1218:1918:2019:2219:3319:3420:822:422:722:1022:1122:2523:424:824:11
Judges11 verses
1 Samuel2 verses
2 Samuel13 verses
2:2910:1717:2217:2419:1519:1719:1819:3119:3619:3919:4120:224:5
1 Kings4 verses
2 Kings9 verses
1 Chronicles5 verses
2 Chronicles1 verse
Job1 verse
Psalms3 verses
Isaiah1 verse
Jeremiah3 verses
Ezekiel1 verse
Zechariah1 verse
Matthew6 verses
Mark4 verses
Luke2 verses
John3 verses
Onward
Where this page goes
Nothing in the graph stands one hop from this entity yet. These are the best-connected entities of the same type, so the page still ends somewhere. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Where they appear
What happened here
Atlas's reading of each chapter this place appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
- Genesis 32The Jordan was crossed by Jacob with only his staff, before he became two camps.
- Genesis 50Across the Jordan, at the threshing floor of Atad, the mourners lamented for seven days.
- Numbers 22The Jordan lies beside Israel’s camp in the plains of Moab.
- Numbers 32The Jordan was the boundary the Gadites and Reubenites asked not to cross, then promised to cross for battle.
- Numbers 35The Jordan divided the six refuge cities, with three across it and three in Canaan.
- Numbers 36The plains of Moab lie by the Jordan when these commandments are given.
- Deuteronomy 1The Jordan stood beside the land of Moab, east of which Moses spoke.
- Deuteronomy 3The Jordan bordered the allotted land in the Arabah from Chinnereth to the Sea of the Arabah.
30 more chapters, from Deuteronomy 4 to John 10
- Deuteronomy 4The Jordan was the crossing Moses would not make and the eastern boundary beside the cities of refuge.
- Deuteronomy 9The Jordan lies before Israel as the crossing into the land of nations greater and stronger than they are.
- Deuteronomy 11The Jordan is crossed to enter and possess the land.
- Deuteronomy 12Jordan is crossed as the people enter the land the LORD is giving them as an inheritance.
- Deuteronomy 27The Jordan was crossed on the day the stones and the law were to be carried into the land.
- Joshua 1The Jordan is the river Israel is ordered to cross within three days.
- Joshua 3The Jordan stopped flowing when the priests carrying the ark touched its waters, leaving dry ground for Israel to cross.
- Joshua 4The Jordan is held back for the crossing, receives twelve stones, and then returns to its course and overflows its banks.
- Joshua 5The Jordan’s waters were dried up before Israel until the people crossed over.
- Joshua 12The Jordan divided the lands listed east of it from those conquered to the west.
- Joshua 14The Jordan marked the eastern land already given to two and a half tribes.
- Joshua 22The Jordan served as the border beside which the eastern tribes built their imposing altar.
- Joshua 23The Jordan formed the eastern end of the land Joshua described as allotted to Israel.
- 2 Samuel 20Judah stayed with David all the way from the Jordan to Jerusalem.
- 1 Kings 17The Jordan lay west of Cherith, which was east of it.
- 2 Kings 2At the Jordan, Elijah and Elisha crossed on dry ground after Elijah struck the waters, and Elisha later crossed the same way.
- 2 Kings 5The Jordan was where Naaman dipped himself seven times and was cleansed.
- 2 Kings 6At the Jordan, the sons of the prophets cut trees, and a borrowed iron axe head was made to float.
- 2 Kings 7The scouts tracked the fleeing Arameans as far as the Jordan and found their discarded clothing and equipment along the way.
- Job 40The Jordan surged to Behemoth's mouth while the creature remained secure.
- Psalms 42The land of Jordan is remembered as a place from which the singer remembers God.
- Psalms 114The Jordan turned back.
- Isaiah 9The country beyond the Jordan is named among the lands awaiting honour and light.
- Jeremiah 12The Jordan appears in the thickets against which the exhausted runner is measured.
- Zechariah 11The thickets of the Jordan are destroyed, sending the young lions roaring.
- Matthew 3In the Jordan River, John baptized those who came confessing their sins, and there Jesus was baptized.
- Matthew 19Beyond the Jordan, Jesus heals the crowds who follow Him.
- Luke 4The Jordan is where Jesus returns from before being led into the wilderness.
- John 3The Jordan is mentioned as the place beyond which John had been with Jesus.
- John 10Across the Jordan, at the place where John had first been baptizing, Jesus stayed while many believed in him.
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