Bible verses about "jordan" | BBE

¹⁰ I am less than nothing in comparison with all your mercies and your faith to me your servant; for with only my stick in my hand I went across Jordan, and now I have become two armies.

¹ Now when all the nation had come to the other side of Jordan, the Lord said to Joshua, ² Take twelve men from the people, a man for every tribe, ³ And say to them, Take up from the middle of Jordan, from the place where the feet of the priests were resting, twelve stones, and take them over with you and put them down in the place where you take your rest tonight. ⁴ So Joshua sent for the twelve men, whom he had ready, one man out of every tribe of the children of Israel, ⁵ And he said to them, Go over before the ark of the Lord your God into the middle of Jordan, and let every one of you take up a stone on his back, one for every tribe of the children of Israel: ⁶ So that this may be a sign among you; when your children say to you in time to come, What is the reason for these stones? ⁷ Then you will say to them, Because the waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark of the Lord's agreement; when it went over Jordan the waters of Jordan were cut off: and these stones will be a sign for the children of Israel, keeping it in their memory for ever. ⁸ So the children of Israel did as Joshua gave them orders, and took twelve stones from the middle of Jordan, as the Lord had said to Joshua, one for every tribe of the children of Israel; these they took across with them to their night's resting-place and put them down there. ⁹ And Joshua put up twelve stones in the middle of Jordan, where the feet of the priests who took up the ark of the agreement had been placed: and there they are to this day. ¹⁰ For the priests who took up the ark kept there in the middle of Jordan till all the orders given to Joshua by Moses from the Lord had been done: then the people went over quickly. ¹¹ And when all the people had come to the other side, the ark of the Lord went over, and the priests, before the eyes of the people. ¹² And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh went over armed before the children of Israel as Moses had said to them: ¹³ About forty thousand armed for war went over before the Lord to the fight, to the lowlands of Jericho. ¹⁴ That day the Lord made Joshua great in the eyes of all Israel; and all the days of his life they went in fear of him, as they had gone in fear of Moses. ¹⁵ Then the Lord said to Joshua, ¹⁶ Give orders to the priests who take up the ark of witness, to come up out of Jordan. ¹⁷ So Joshua gave orders to the priests, saying, Come up now out of Jordan. ¹⁸ And when the priests who took up the ark of the Lord's agreement came up out of Jordan and their feet came out on to dry land, the waters of Jordan went back to their place, overflowing its edges as before. ¹⁹ So on the tenth day of the first month the people came up out of Jordan, and put up their tents in Gilgal, on the east side of Jericho. ²⁰ And the twelve stones which they took out of Jordan, Joshua put up in Gilgal. ²¹ And he said to the children of Israel, When your children say to their fathers in time to come, What is the reason for these stones? ²² Then give your children the story, and say, Israel came over this river Jordan on dry land. ²³ For the Lord your God made the waters of Jordan dry before you till you had gone across, as he did to the Red Sea, drying it up before us till we had gone across: ²⁴ So that all the peoples of the earth may see that the hand of the Lord is strong; and that they may go in fear of the Lord your God for ever.

¹⁵ And when those who took up the ark came to Jordan, and the feet of the priests who took up the ark were touching the edge of the water for the waters of Jordan are overflowing all through the time of the grain-cutting,

²² So David and all the people who were with him went up over Jordan: when dawn came, every one of them had gone over Jordan.

⁹ And it came about in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was given baptism by John in the Jordan.

¹ Then Joshua got up early in the morning, and, moving on from Shittim, he and all the children of Israel came to Jordan and were there for the night before going over. ² And at the end of three days, the men in authority over the people went through the tents, ³ Giving the people their orders, and saying, When you see the ark of the agreement of the Lord your God lifted up by the priests, the Levites, then get up from your places and go after it; ⁴ But let there be a space between you and it of about two thousand cubits: come no nearer to it, so that you may see the way you have to go, for you have not been over this way before. ⁵ And Joshua said to the people, Make yourselves holy, for tomorrow the Lord will do works of wonder among you. ⁶ Then Joshua said to the priests, Take up the ark of the agreement and go over in front of the people. So they took up the ark of the agreement and went in front of the people. ⁷ And the Lord said to Joshua, From now on I will give you glory in the eyes of all Israel, so that they may see that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. ⁸ And you are to give orders to the priests who take up the ark of the agreement, and say, When you come to the edge of the waters of Jordan, go no further. ⁹ And Joshua said to the children of Israel, Come to me here: and give ear to the words of the Lord your God. ¹⁰ And Joshua said, By this you will see that the living God is among you, and that he will certainly send out from before you the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Hivite and the Perizzite and the Girgashite and the Amorite and the Jebusite. ¹¹ See, the ark of the agreement of the Lord of all the earth is going over before you into Jordan. ¹² So take twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, a man from every tribe. ¹³ And when the feet of the priests who take up the ark of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth, come to rest in the waters of Jordan, the waters of Jordan will be cut off, all the waters flowing down from higher up, and will come together in a mass. ¹⁴ So when the people went out from their tents to go over Jordan, the priests who took up the ark of the agreement were in front of the people; ¹⁵ And when those who took up the ark came to Jordan, and the feet of the priests who took up the ark were touching the edge of the water for the waters of Jordan are overflowing all through the time of the grain-cutting, ¹⁶ Then the waters flowing down from higher up were stopped and came together in a mass a long way back at Adam, a town near Zarethan; and the waters flowing down to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were cut off: and the people went across opposite Jericho. ¹⁷ And the priests who took up the ark of the agreement of the Lord kept their places, with their feet on dry land in the middle of Jordan, while all Israel went over on dry land, till all the nation had gone over Jordan.

⁵ If running with the fighting-men has made you tired, how will you be able to keep up with horses? and if in a land of peace you go in flight, what will become of you in the thick growth of Jordan?

³ The sea saw it, and went in flight; Jordan was turned back.

¹⁰ And Elisha sent a servant to him, saying, Go to Jordan, and after washing seven times in its waters your flesh will be well again and you will be clean. ¹¹ But Naaman was angry and went away and said, I had the idea that he would come out to see such an important person as I am, and make prayer to the Lord his God, and with a wave of his hand over the place make the leper well. ¹² Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not be washed in them and become clean? So turning, he went away in wrath. ¹³ Then his servants came to him and said, If the prophet had given you orders to do some great thing, would you not have done it? how much more then, when he says to you, Be washed and become clean? ¹⁴ Then he went down seven times into the waters of Jordan, as the man of God had said; and his flesh became like the flesh of a little child again, and he was clean.

¹³ Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan, to be given baptism by him.