the River Jordan
46 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
31 sections
- Despised by Foreigners
- Eastern Boundary of Canaan
- Empties Itself Into the Dead Sea
- Ferry Boats often Used On
- Fordable in some Places
- Moses not Allowed to Cross
- Often Overflowed
- Overflowing of, Called the Swelling of Jordan
- Passage of Israel Over in an Appointed Order
- Passage of Israel Over: A Pledge That God Would Drive the Canaanites out of
- Passage of Israel Over: Alluded To
- Passage of Israel Over: Commemorated by a Pillar of Stones in Gilgal
- Passage of Israel Over: Commemorated by a Pillar of Stones Raised in It
- Passage of Israel Over: Preceded by Priests with the Ark
- Passage of Israel Over: Promised
- Passage of Israel Over: Successfully Effected
- Remarkable Events Connected With: Baptism of Multitudes by John the Baptist
- Remarkable Events Connected With: Baptism of Our Lord
- Remarkable Events Connected With: Division of Its Waters to Let Israel Pass Over
- Remarkable Events Connected With: Healing of Naaman the Leper
- Remarkable Events Connected With: Its Division by Elijah
- Remarkable Events Connected With: Its Division by Elisha
- Remarkable Events Connected With: Return of Its Waters to Their Place
- Remarkable Events Connected With: Slaughter of Moabites
- Remarkable Events Connected With: Slaughter of the Ephraimites
- The Jews had Great Pride In
- The Plains of Afforded Clay for Moulding Brass
- The Plains of Chosen by Lot for a Residence
- The Plains of Exceeding Fertile
- The Plains of Infested with Lions
- The Plains of Thickly Wooded
Despised by Foreigners
- 2 Kings 5:12 Are not the Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not have washed in them and been cleansed?” So he turned and went away in a rage.
Eastern Boundary of Canaan
- Numbers 34:12 Then the border will go down along the Jordan and end at the Salt Sea. This will be your land, defined by its borders on all sides.”
Empties Itself Into the Dead Sea
- Numbers 34:12 Then the border will go down along the Jordan and end at the Salt Sea. This will be your land, defined by its borders on all sides.”
Ferry Boats often Used On
- 2 Samuel 19:18 and crossed at the ford to carry over the king’s household and to do what was good in his sight. When Shimei son of Gera crossed the Jordan, he fell down before the king
Fordable in some Places
- Joshua 2:7 So the king’s men set out in pursuit of the spies along the road to the fords of the Jordan, and as soon as they had gone out, the gate was shut.
- Judges 12:5–6 The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan leading to Ephraim, and whenever a fugitive from Ephraim would say, “Let me cross over,” the Gileadites would ask him, “Are you an Ephraimite?” If he answered, “No,” …
Moses not Allowed to Cross
- Deuteronomy 3:27 Go to the top of Pisgah and look to the west and north and south and east. See the land with your own eyes, for you will not cross this Jordan.
- Deuteronomy 31:2 he said to them, “I am now a hundred and twenty years old; I am no longer able to come and go, and the LORD has said to me, ‘You shall not cross the Jordan.’
Often Overflowed
- 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 and their feet touched the water’s edge,
- 1 Chronicles 12:15 These are the ones who crossed the Jordan in the first month when it was overflowing all its banks, and they put to flight all those in the valleys, both to the east and to the west.
Overflowing of, Called the Swelling of Jordan
- Jeremiah 12:5 “If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in a peaceful land, how will you do in the thickets of the Jordan?
- Jeremiah 49:19 Behold, one will come up like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan to the watered pasture. For in an instant I will chase Edom from her land. Who is the chosen one I will appoint for this? For who is like Me, and who can …
Passage of Israel Over in an Appointed Order
- Joshua 3:1–8 Early the next morning Joshua got up and left Shittim with all the Israelites. They went as far as the Jordan, where they camped before crossing over. …
Passage of Israel Over: A Pledge That God Would Drive the Canaanites out of
- Joshua 3:10 He continued, “This is how you will know that the living God is among you and that He will surely drive out before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites.
Passage of Israel Over: Alluded To
- Psalm 74:15 You broke open the fountain and the flood; You dried up the ever-flowing rivers.
- Psalm 114:3 The sea observed and fled; the Jordan turned back;
- Psalm 114:5 Why was it, O sea, that you fled, O Jordan, that you turned back,
Passage of Israel Over: Commemorated by a Pillar of Stones in Gilgal
- Joshua 4:2–8 “Choose twelve men from among the people, one from each tribe, …
- Joshua 4:20–24 And there at Gilgal Joshua set up the twelve stones they had taken from the Jordan. …
Passage of Israel Over: Commemorated by a Pillar of Stones Raised in It
- Joshua 4:9 Joshua also set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, in the place where the priests who carried the ark of the covenant stood. And the stones are there to this day.
Passage of Israel Over: Preceded by Priests with the Ark
- Joshua 3:6 And he said to the priests, “Take the ark of the covenant and go on ahead of the people.” So they carried the ark of the covenant and went ahead of them.
- Joshua 3:11 Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth will go ahead of you into the Jordan.
- Joshua 3:14 So when the people broke camp to cross the Jordan, the priests carried the ark of the covenant ahead of them.
Passage of Israel Over: Promised
- Deuteronomy 4:22 For I will not be crossing the Jordan, because I must die in this land. But you shall cross over and take possession of that good land.
- Deuteronomy 9:1 Hear, O Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you, with large cities fortified to the heavens.
- Deuteronomy 11:31 For you are about to cross the Jordan to enter and possess the land that the LORD your God is giving you. When you take possession of it and settle in it,
Passage of Israel Over: Successfully Effected
- Joshua 3:17 The priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan, while all Israel crossed over the dry ground, until the entire nation had crossed the Jordan.
- Joshua 4:1 When the whole nation had finished crossing the Jordan, the LORD said to Joshua,
- Joshua 4:10–11 Now the priests who carried the ark remained standing in the middle of the Jordan until the people had completed everything the LORD had commanded Joshua to tell them, just as Moses had directed Joshua. The people hurried across, …
Remarkable Events Connected With: Baptism of Multitudes by John the Baptist
- Matthew 3:6 Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.
- Mark 1:5 People went out to him from all of Jerusalem and the countryside of Judea. Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.
- John 1:28 All this happened at Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
Remarkable Events Connected With: Baptism of Our Lord
- Matthew 3:13 At that time Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptized by John.
- Matthew 3:15 “Let it be so now,” Jesus replied. “It is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness in this way.” Then John permitted Him.
- Mark 1:9 In those days Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan.
Remarkable Events Connected With: Division of Its Waters to Let Israel Pass Over
- Joshua 3:12–16 Now choose twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one from each tribe. …
- Joshua 5:1 Now when all the Amorite kings west of the Jordan and all the Canaanite kings along the coast heard how the LORD had dried up the waters of the Jordan before the Israelites until they had crossed over, their hearts melted and …
Remarkable Events Connected With: Healing of Naaman the Leper
- 2 Kings 5:10 Then Elisha sent him a messenger, who said, “Go and wash yourself seven times in the Jordan, and your flesh will be restored, and you will be clean.”
- 2 Kings 5:14 So Naaman went down and dipped himself in the Jordan seven times, according to the word of the man of God, and his flesh was restored and became like that of a little child, and he was clean.
Remarkable Events Connected With: Its Division by Elijah
- 2 Kings 2:8 And Elijah took his cloak, rolled it up, and struck the waters, which parted to the right and to the left, so that the two of them crossed over on dry ground.
Remarkable Events Connected With: Its Division by Elisha
- 2 Kings 2:14 Then he took the cloak of Elijah that had fallen from him and struck the waters. “Where now is the LORD, the God of Elijah?” he asked. And when he had struck the waters, they parted to the right and to the left, and Elisha crossed over.
Remarkable Events Connected With: Return of Its Waters to Their Place
- Joshua 4:18 When the priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD came up out of the Jordan and their feet touched the dry land, the waters of the Jordan returned to their course and overflowed all the banks as before.
Remarkable Events Connected With: Slaughter of Moabites
- Judges 3:28–29 “Follow me,” he told them, “for the LORD has delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand.” So they followed him down and seized the fords of the Jordan leading to Moab, and they did not allow anyone to cross over. …
Remarkable Events Connected With: Slaughter of the Ephraimites
- Judges 12:4–6 Jephthah then gathered all the men of Gilead and fought against Ephraim. And the men of Gilead struck them down because the Ephraimites had said, “You Gileadites are fugitives in Ephraim, living in the territories of Ephraim and Manasseh.” …
The Jews had Great Pride In
- Zechariah 11:3 Listen to the wailing of the shepherds, for their glory is in ruins. Listen to the roaring of the young lions, for the thickets of the Jordan are destroyed.
The Plains of Afforded Clay for Moulding Brass
- 1 Kings 7:46 The king had them cast in clay molds in the plain of the Jordan between Succoth and Zarethan.
- 2 Chronicles 4:17 The king had them cast in clay molds in the plain of the Jordan between Succoth and Zeredah.
The Plains of Chosen by Lot for a Residence
- Genesis 13:11 So Lot chose the whole plain of the Jordan for himself and set out toward the east. And Abram and Lot parted company.
The Plains of Exceeding Fertile
- Genesis 13:10 And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
The Plains of Infested with Lions
- Jeremiah 49:19 Behold, one will come up like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan to the watered pasture. For in an instant I will chase Edom from her land. Who is the chosen one I will appoint for this? For who is like Me, and who can …
- Jeremiah 50:44 Behold, one will come up like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan to the watered pasture. For in an instant I will chase Babylon from her land. Who is the chosen one I will appoint for this? For who is like Me, and who can …
The Plains of Thickly Wooded
- 2 Kings 6:2 Please let us go to the Jordan, where each of us can get a log so we can build ourselves a place to live there.” “Go,” said Elisha.
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.