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Jordan River....
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The Jordan river is the major river in ancient
Palestine, from its main source at Banias in the foothill of Mount Hermon, the
Jordan River runs south in a great crack in the earth's surface where two tectonic plates meet. (Yarden - in
Hebrew - from the verb root Yored - to descend).
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Jordan River also gets its source of water from the
Sea of Galilee (Kineret) a fresh water lake 700-ft. below sea level. It is bordered with trees and shrubs. Tamarisk, rhododendron, Angus Castus, Apple of
Sodom. Its waters contain twenty-two species of various fish; Capocta, Barbus Canis, Cyprinodon, Silurus. Fishing has always been essential to the local economy. Varieties of birds are found in the neighboring thickets and wild animals, Vipers, scorpions, porcupines, jackals, wild boars, ibexes, and panthers. The area temperature is tropical.
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Jordan River entering Sea of Galilee Ariel |
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The Jordan is clear, and in some places reaches a width of over twenty yards and a depth of nearly seventeen feet and is more than thirteen miles in length; a bridge, which connects Damascus with
Galilee, crosses it.
The water of the Jordan contains a saline residuum, chlorine, sodium, sulfuric acid, and magnesia. The floods of the river occur from February to May.
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Our Lord Jesus Christ was baptized in the
Bethany across the Jordan River (John 1.28) He traveled south to Jordan River to meet John the Baptist who was baptizing in the river all who came and repented of their sins. Then the people of
Jerusalem and all
Judea were going out to him, and all the region along the Jordan, and they were baptize by him in the
river Jordan, confessing their sins.
(Matthew 3:5-6).
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