Bible Dictionary: Rivers: Jordan

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

Joshua 3:8
And you shall command the priests that bear the ark of the covenant, saying, When you are come to the brink of the water of Jordan, you shall stand still in Jordan.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

2 Kings 5:10
And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall come again to you, and you shall be clean.
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Library

Naaman the Syrian and the Jordan. No Other Stream Has the Same ...
... Naaman, then, is still in error, and does not see how far inferior other rivers
are to the Jordan for the cure of the suffering; he extols the rivers of ...
/.../origen/origens commentary on the gospel of john/28 naaman the syrian and.htm

The River of Egypt and Its Dragon, Contrasted with the Jordan.
... dragon, seated in the midst of rivers, who sayest, Mine are the rivers, and I ... we
have considered in a way more worthy of the sacred subject the Jordan and the ...
/.../origen/origens commentary on the gospel of john/29 the river of egypt.htm

The Seven Seas According to the Talmudists, and the Four Rivers ...
... of Jordan, and the waters of Jarmoch, are not fit, because they are mixed
waters":"that is, as the Gloss speaks, mixed with the waters of other rivers, which ...
/.../lightfoot/from the talmud and hebraica/chapter 4 the seven seas.htm

Pamias. Paneas, the Spring of Jordan.
... II. We think, therefore, that Jordan is called the Greater and the Less, not upon
any account of two fountains, or two rivers, different and distant from one ...
/.../lightfoot/from the talmud and hebraica/chapter 67 pamias paneas the.htm

Israel in Canaan.
... which goes the whole length of the land, and forms two slopes, whence the rivers
flow, either westward into the Great Sea, or eastward into the Jordan, Many of ...
//christianbookshelf.org/yonge/the chosen people/lesson v israel in canaan.htm

Mr. Evil-Questioning Tried and Executed
... but supposing there is some medical influence in water, why must I wash in Jordan?
It is but a mere ditch, why can I not go and wash in some of my own rivers? ...
/.../spurgeons sermons volume 6 1860/mr evil-questioning tried and executed.htm

A Description Op Galilee, Samaria, and Judea.
... from rain-water, of which they have no want; and for those rivers which they have ...
adjoining to the confines of Arabia; the Jews that dwell there call it Jordan. ...
/.../chapter 3 a description op.htm

Choked Channels.
... Mark the quantity of water""rivers." Not a Jordan merely, that would be wonderful
enough, but Jordans"a Jordan, and a Nile, and a Euphrates, a Yang Tse ...
//christianbookshelf.org/gordon/quiet talks on power/choked channels.htm

The Sick Person Ought Now to Send for Some Godly and Religious ...
... as Christ by his disciples loosed Lazarus (John 11:44.) And as no water could wash
away Naaman's leprosy but the waters of Jordan, though other rivers were as ...
/.../bayly/the practice of piety/the sick person ought now.htm

A Little Jewish Maid.
... Why should he bathe in the Jordan River, where the water was clay-white and often
muddy, when he had his own rivers of Abana the golden and Pharpar the sweet ...
/.../anonymous/children of the old testament/a little jewish maid.htm

Subtopics

Rivers of Canaan Abounded With Fish

Rivers of Heavy Afflictions

Rivers of Jotbath