Joshua 3:1
1 Joshua comes to Jordan.2 The officers instruct the people for their passage.7 The Lord encourages Joshua.9 Joshua encourages the people.14 The water of Jordan are divided. rose early.Archbishop Usher supposes, that this was upon Wednesday, the 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 1:3), to the Jordan, was, according to Josephus, about sixty stadia; that is, between seven and eight English miles. Ge 22:3; Ps 119:60; Jer 7:13; 25:3; 26:5; Mr 1:35Shittim.2:1; Nu 25:1; Mic 6:5Jordan.Jordan, called by the Arabs El Sharia, takes its rise in Anti-Libanus, about twelve miles north of Cæsarea Philippi, now Banias; and, having run about twelve miles southward, it receives a considerable stream, which is now called the Moiet Hasbeia. About 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 Gennesareth, and thence runs southward till it loses itself in the Dead Sea; its whole course being about 160 miles.
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