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The Jordan River or River Jordan (Arabic: نَهْر الْأُرْدُنّ, Nahr al-ʾUrdunn; Hebrew: נְהַר הַיַּרְדֵּן, Nəhar hayYardēn), also known as Nahr Al-Sharieat (Arabic: نهر الشريعة), is a 251-kilometre-long (156 mi) river in the Levant that flows roughly north to south through the Sea of Galilee and drains to the Dead Sea.
Al-Maghtas (Arabic: المغطس, meaning ' baptism ' or ' immersion '), officially known as Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan", is an archaeological World Heritage Site in Jordan, on the east bank of the Jordan River, reputed to be the original location of the Baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist and venerated as such since at least the Byzantine period. [1]
212 square kilometres (81.9 sq mi) Established. 1987. Governing body. Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature. Al Mujib dam. The Wadi Mujib (Arabic: وادي الموجب, romanized: Wādī al-Mūjib), also known as Arnon Stream (Hebrew: נַחַל ארנון [1]), is a river in Jordan. The river empties into the Dead Sea circa 420 metres ...
A fork of the Hejaz Railway (connecting to the Jezreel Valley railway in Samakh) ran in the river valley from 1905 to 1946. [8] It was deprecated after being bombed by the Jewish Haganah in the Night of the Bridges on 16 June 1946. The hydroplant of Naharayim, on the confluence with Jordan River, served Mandatory Palestine from 1932 to 1948. [9]
Thomas Pola. The Tulul adh-Dhahab (Arabic: تلول الذهب; lit. "the hills of gold") is an archaeological site in Jordan. The site features two neighboring tells, separated by the Zarqa River (the biblical River Jabbok), an affluent of the Jordan River. The two tells are commonly identified with the ancient Israelite cities of Mahanaim and ...
The Rev Ron Johnson and Reggie White baptize a member of the Heavenly International Tour of the Holy Land in the River Jordan, near Tiberias, Israel in 1998. In 1998, when he was invited to ...
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