And Joshua rose before daylight, and removed the camp: and they departed from Setim, and came to the Jordan: he, and all the children of Israel, and they abode there for three days.

28th of April, A. M.

2553, the fortieth year of the Exodus from Egypt. From Shittim, where the israelites had been encamped for about two months (De

Joshua 1:3 I will deliver to you every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, as I have said to Moses.

), to the Jordan, was, according to Josephus, about sixty stadia; that is, between seven and eight English miles.

Genesis 22:3 So Abraham rising up in the night, saddled his ass, and took with him two young men, and Isaac his son: and when he had cut wood for the holocaust, he went his way to the place which God had commanded him.

Psalm 119:60 I am ready, and am not troubled: that I may keep thy commandments.

Jeremiah 7:13 And now, because you have done all these works, saith the Lord: and I have spoken to you rising up early, and speaking, and you have not heard: and I have called you, and you have not answered:

Jeremiah 25:3 From the thirteenth year of Josias the son of Ammon king of Juda until this day: this is the three and twentieth year, the word of the Lord hath come to me, and I have spoken to you, rising before day, and speaking, and you have not hearkened.

Jeremiah 26:5 To give ear to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I sent to you rising up early: and sending, and you have not hearkened:

Mark 1:35 And rising very early, going out, he went into a desert place: and there he prayed.

Shittim

Joshua 2:1 And Joshua, the son of Nun, sent from Setim two men, to spy secretly: and said to them: Go, and view the land, and the city of Jericho. They went, and entered into the house of a woman that was a harlot, named Rahab, and lodged with her.

Numbers 25:1 And Israel at that time abode in Settim, and the people committed fornication with the daughters of Moab,

Micah 6:5 O my people, remember, I pray thee, what Balach, the king of Moab, purposed: and what Balaam, the son of Beor, answered him, from Setim to Galgal, that thou mightest know the justice of the Lord.

15 miles farther, it forms the waters of Merom or Semechon, now Houle; and, after running about

28 miles more, it passes through the lake of Gennesaret, and these runs southward till it loses itself in the Dead Sea; its whole course being about

160 miles.