31:1). It may safely be reckoned at 10,000 feet.Hermon in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE hur'-mon (chermon; Codex Vaticanus, Haermon): 1. Ge 32:10 Jordan was next crossed, over against Jericho, by Joshua. Map Store - Download High-Res Maps and Images, 2022, Bible History | All rights reserved, Jordan River in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE. 27:4). Sea of Galilee: The Sea of Galilee occupiesJudges 7:25 - And they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian, and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side Jordan.Joshua 13:23 - And the border of the children of Reuben was Jordan, and the border [thereof].

3:3; 1 Chr. 4:8). During Old Testament times Israel was referred to originally as the land of Canaan, which was the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. Hermon has three summits, situated like the angles of a triangle, and about a quarter of a mile from each other. the King James Version mistakenly renders this "the Hermonites" (Psalm 42:6). The main source of the Jordan River is 1800 feet above sea level, and it flows downward to the south winding through the Jordan Valley and finally empties into the Dead Sea which is 1300 feet below sea level. 3:8, 4:48; Josh. It was called Sirion by the Sidonians (Deuteronomy 3:9; compare Psalm 29:6), and Senir by the Amorites (Deuteronomy 3:9). If average speed of your car will be standard for this route between Mount Hermon, Lebanon and Mount Zion, Jerusalem, Israel and road conditions will be as usual, time that you will need to arrive to Mount Zion, Jerusalem, Israel will be 1 hour. Great reservoirs in the depths of the mountain, fed by the melting snows, find outlet in the magnificent springs at Chasbeiyeh, Tell el-Kady, and Banias, while the dew-clouds of Hermon bring a benediction wherever they are carried (Psalm 133:3).3. The Bareighit receives its supply of water from the hills on the West, which separate the valley from the river Litany, and is the least important of the four. The Hermons: Once it is called "Hermons" (chermonim). Now Jebel es Sheykh, "the old white-headed man's mountain," referring to the long streaks of snow remaining in the ravines radiating from the center, when the snow has disappeared elsewhere, like an old man's scanty white locks.

The last feature which remains to be noticed in the scriptural account of the Jordan is its frequent mention as a boundary: "over Jordan," "this" and "the other side," or "beyond Jordan," were expressions as familiar to the Israelites as "across the water," "this" and "the other side of the Channel" are to English ears. (See DEW.) The Hill Country, or mountain region were part of the mountains of Lebanon, and they were naturally divided into four regions: Upper Galilee in the north, below that was Lower Galilee, the Mountains of Judah, and the Hills of the Negeb Desert.4. Its remote and solitary heights must have attracted worshippers from the earliest times; and we cannot doubt that it was a famous sanctuary in far antiquity. Jos 3:15 The channel or bed of the river became brimful, so that the level of the water and of the banks was then the same. Hermon near Hasbeiya, 1,700 ft. above the sea, and descends 1,500 ft. in its course to the plain. At the southern end of Lake Huleh, the valley narrows up to a width of a few hundred yards, and the river begins its descent into levels below the Mediterranean. The Dead Sea was 46 miles long and 10 miles wide. Hermon is the source of many blessings to the land over which it so proudly lifts its splendid form. It joins the main stream about a mile belowJordan River in Hitchcock's Bible Names the river of judgmentJordan River in Naves Topical Bible (A river in Israel) -Empties into the Dead Sea Jos 15:5 -Fords of Ge 32:10; Jos 2:7; Jud 3:28; 7:24; 8:4; 10:9; 12:5,6; 2Sa 2:29; 17:22,24; 19:15,31; 1Ch 19:17 -Swelling of, at harvest time Jos 3:15; Jer 12:5 -Swelling of, in the early spring 1Ch 12:15 -The waters of, miraculously separated for the passage Of the Israelites Jos 3; 4; 5:1; Ps 114:3 Of Elijah 2Ki 2:6-8 Of Elisha 2Ki 2:14 -Crossed by a ferry boat 2Sa 19:18 -Naaman washes in, for the healing of his leprosy 2Ki 5:10-14 -John the Baptist immerses in Mt 3:6; Mr 1:5 -John the Baptist immerses Jesus in Mt 3:13; Mr 1:9 -PLAIN OF Ge 13:10-12 Israelites camped in Nu 22:1; 26:3,63 Solomon's foundry in 1Ki 7:46; 2Ch 4:17Jordan River in Smiths Bible Dictionary (the descender), the one river of Israel, has a course of little more than 200 miles, from the roots of Anti- Lebanon to the head of the Dead Sea. Rivers and Streams West of the Jordan flowing into the Mediterranean. The Maritime Plain actually was divided into 3 main sections: Phoenicia to Mount Carmel in the north, Sharon in the middle, and Philistia in the south. A Harmony of the Life of Jesus - Four gospel accounts in harmony. It was part, of the dominion of Og (Joshua 12:5), and with the fall of that monarch, it would naturally come under Israelite influence. Later when the land was conquered by the Israelites under Joshua it was divided to the 12 tribes of Israel. Throughout this delta the river is easily fordable during a great part of the year. From the western base of a hill on which once stood the city of Dan, the northern border-city of Israel, there gushes forth a considerable fountain called the Leddan, which is the largest fountain in Syria and the principal source of the Jordan. The two principal features in its course are its descent and its windings. Lake Merom was a triangular shaped lake situated in Upper Galilee, it was about 3 miles distance across the lake. Where our Lord was baptized is not stated expressly, but it was probably at the upper ford. 13. Mt. Mount Gerizim was known in the Old Testament as the Mount of Blessings (Josh. Its remote and solitary heights must have attracted worshippers from the earliest times; and we cannot doubt that it was a famous sanctuary in far antiquity. This morass is almost impenetrable by reason of bushes and papyrus reeds, which in places also render navigation of the channel difficult even with a canoe. The next day they descended to Caesarea Philippi.Hermon in Fausset's Bible Dictionary ("mountain nose, or peak".) In one sense indeed, that is, in so far as it was the eastern boundary of the land of Canaan, it was the eastern boundary of the promised land. (136 miles in a straight line. The Eastern Mountain Range, situated east of the Jordan River were fertile mountains naturally divided into 3 sections: Bashan in the north, Gilead in the middle, and Moab in the south. In two passages of Scripture this mountain is called Baal-hermon, Jud 3:3; 1Ch 5:23 possibly because Baal was there worshipped. 11. In Psalm 89:12 Tabor is made the western, Hermon the eastern landmark. It is also identified with Sion (Deuteronomy 4:48). It flows from north to south down a deep valley in the centre of the country. N.E. Under the highest peak are the ruins of Kacr `Antar, which may have been an ancient sanctuary of Baal. Biblical Archaeology - Significant Discoveries from Ancient Empires. The History of Rome - Brief Overview Of Roman History from Her Dawn to the First Punic War. --Schaff.) Its sinuosity is not so remarkable in the upper part of its course. There were many Rivers, lakes, and mountain streams in Old Testament Israel. Little Hermon, the name now often applied to the hill between Tabor and Gilboa, possibly the Hill of Moreh, on which is the sanctuary of Neby Dahy, has no Biblical authority, and dates only from the Middle Ages.Joshua 12:1 - Now these [are] the kings of the land, which the children of Israel smote, and possessed their land on the other side Jordan toward the rising of the sun, from the river Arnon unto mount Hermon, and all the plain on the east:Joshua 12:5 - And reigned in mount Hermon, and in Salcah, and in all Bashan, unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.Joshua 11:17 - [Even] from the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir, even unto Baalgad in the valley of Lebanon under mount Hermon: and all their kings he took, and smote them, and slew them.Deuteronomy 3:9 - ([Which] Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites call it Shenir;)Song of Solomon 4:8 - Come with me from Lebanon, [my] spouse, with me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions' dens, from the mountains of the leopards.Joshua 11:3 - [And to] the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and [to] the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the mountains, and [to] the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpeh.1 Chronicles 5:23 - And the children of the half tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land: they increased from Bashan unto Baalhermon and Senir, and unto mount Hermon.Deuteronomy 3:8 - And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites the land that [was] on this side Jordan, from the river of Arnon unto mount Hermon;Joshua 13:5 - And the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrising, from Baalgad under mount Hermon unto the entering into Hamath.Psalms 133:3 - As the dew of Hermon, [and as the dew] that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, [even] life for evermore.Joshua 13:11 - And Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan unto Salcah;Psalms 89:12 - The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name.Deuteronomy 4:48 - From Aroer, which [is] by the bank of the river Arnon, even unto mount Sion, which [is] Hermon. 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And [this is] the east side.Joshua 1:15 - Until the LORD have given your brethren rest, as [he hath given] you, and they also have possessed the land which the LORD your God giveth them: then ye shall return unto the land of your possession, and enjoy it, which Moses the LORD'S servant gave you on this side Jordan toward the sunrising.Joshua 3:14 - And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents, to pass over Jordan, and the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people;Psalms 114:5 - What [ailed] thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? The total area consisted of around 12,000 square miles, from Syria in the east to the Mediterranean Sea in the west, and from Mount Hermon in the north to the Arabian Desert in the south. ch. Mount Zion was the mount of David's castle (1 Chronicles 11:5). The wolf and the leopard are still to be found on the mountain; and it is the last resort of the brown, or Syrian, bear. Not a single city ever crowned the banks of the Jordan.

Mount Nebo, was the mountain where Moses died (Deut. Old Testament Overview - General survey of the Old Testament. Called Sion, "the lofty," distinct from Zion at Jerusalem (Deuteronomy 4:48); among the Amorites Shenir, rather Senir, i.e. Mount Lebanon was famous for its cedars (1 Kings 5:6).5. Deuteronomy 4:48 from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, even to Mount Sion (the same is Hermon). The Jabbok River flowed into the Jordan River a little more than half way toward the Dead Sea. Mount Hermon, Lebanon and Mount Zion, Jerusalem, Israel, Ashkelon, Israel and Mount Hermon, Lebanon, Be'er Sheva, Israel and Mount Hermon, Lebanon, Mount Zion, Jerusalem, Israel and Ibrahim, Samalout, Menia Governorate, Egypt, Mount Hermon, Lebanon and Mount Sinai, Qesm Sharm Ash Sheikh, South Sinai Governorate, Egypt, Raanana, Israel and Mount Hermon, Israel, Tiberias, Israel and mount hermon israel, Mount Hermon, Liban and Tel Aviv, Isral, Rehavia, Jerusalem, Israel and Mount of Olives, Jerusalem, Mount of Olives, Jerusalem and Jerusalem, Israel, New Mount Sinai Garden, Ra'anana, Israel and Jerusalem, Israel, Jerusalem, Israel and New Mount Sinai Garden, Ra'anana, Israel, Nahr El Mout, Wata Amaret Chalhoub, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon and Antelias Road, Antilias, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon, Mazraat Yachoua, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon and Zalka Road, Wata Amaret Chalhoub, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon, Zalka Road, Wata Amaret Chalhoub, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon and Zouk Mosbeh, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon, Zalka Road, Wata Amaret Chalhoub, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon and Nahr Ibrahim, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon, Jrusalem, Isral and Hermon St, Haifa, Isral, Zalka Road, Wata Amaret Chalhoub, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon and Jadra, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon, Zalka Road, Wata Amaret Chalhoub, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon and Bikfayia, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon, Jnah, Ghobeiry, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon and Al Rasul Al Azam Hospital, Beirut, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon, Jbeil, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon and Nahr El Mout, Wata Amaret Chalhoub, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon, Zalka Road, Wata Amaret Chalhoub, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon and Sad El Baouchriye, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon, Capernaum, Israel and Mount of Olives, Jerusalem, Dora, Bourj Hammoud, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon and Adma & Dafneh, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon, Mount Tabor, Tavor Mountain Reserve and Jerusalem, Israel, Chyah, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon and Dora, Bourj Hammoud, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon, Jal El Dib Main Road, Zalqa, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon and Hazmiyeh, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon, Zouk Mosbeh, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon and Haret Hraik, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon, Dora, Bourj Hammoud, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon and Aannaya, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon, Jdaide, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon and Jal El Dib Main Road, Zalqa, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon, Bchelli, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon and Dora, Bourj Hammoud, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon, Mazraat Yachoua, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon and rabweh, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon, Ain Al Remmane, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon and Jnah, Ghobeiry, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon, Ghobeiry, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon and Nahr El Kalb, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon, Sahel Aalma, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon and Halat, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon, Jdeideh, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon and Borj Hammoud, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon, Hazmiyeh, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon and betchay, baabda, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon, Adma & Dafneh, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon and Jounieh, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon, Sahel Aalma, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon and Kfaryassine, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon, Ghadir, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon and Zouq Mkayel, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon, betchay, Baabda, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon and boutchay, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon, Jeddah airport, Saudi Arabia and madinah, Wichita Falls, TX, USA and Port Aransas, TX, USA, Euston Station, Kings Cross, London NW1 2RT, UK and Birmingham New Street Station, New St, Birmingham, West Mid, ICEA Building, Banda St, Nairobi, Kenya and Nairobi, Kenya, Hawally, Kuwait and Wafra Agricultural Co.Op, Al Wafrah, Kuwait. Yarden, "the descender;" Arab. It is also identified with Sion (Dt 4:48). It is one of the most conspicuous mountains in Israel or Syria. Snow lies long on the summits and shoulders of the mountain; and in some of the deeper hollows, especially to the North, it may be seen through most of the year. See SIRION; SENIR; SION. Its altitude is 1,100 ft. above tide, and the stream falls about 600 ft. in the 5 miles of its course to the head of the Jordan. hur'-mon (chermon; Codex Vaticanus, Haermon):1. 8:33). And they two went on.1 Chronicles 19:17 - And it was told David; and he gathered all Israel, and passed over Jordan, and came upon them, and set [the battle] in array against them. The Jordan River has its source in three places near Mount Hermon. 5:23) and Sion (Deut. 10.

thou Jordan, [that] thou wast driven back?Joshua 18:7 - But the Levites have no part among you; for the priesthood of the LORD [is] their inheritance: and Gad, and Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh, have received their inheritance beyond Jordan on the east, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave them.Joshua 19:34 - And [then] the coast turneth westward to Aznothtabor, and goeth out from thence to Hukkok, and reacheth to Zebulun on the south side, and reacheth to Asher on the west side, and to Judah upon Jordan toward the sunrising.Joshua 22:7 - Now to the [one] half of the tribe of Manasseh Moses had given [possession] in Bashan: but unto the [other] half thereof gave Joshua among their brethren on this side Jordan westward. The Zered Brook also flowed into the Dead Sea at the southern end forming the boundary between Moab and Edom. New Testament Overview - General survey of the New Testament. It had numerous Baal sanctuaries, which gave it a name very anciently. Mount Carmel was famous as the place of Elijah's contest with the prophets of Baal (1 Kings 18:20, 42). Refreshing breezes blow from its cold heights. The Bible reveals in the Old Testament that this river destroyed part of Sisera's army (Judges 5:21). 14. Mount Moriah was the mount where Abraham, the first Hebrew offered his only son Isaac (Genesis 22:2) and the location where the temple of Solomon was later built. The Aleppo pine, the oak, and the poplar are plentiful. The Jarmuk River flowed into the Jordan River near the south of the Sea of Galilee.6. The name descender is significant of the fact that there is along its whole course a descent to its banks; or it may simply denote the rapidity with which it "descends" to the Dead Sea. There is every probability that one of its three summits was the scene of the transfiguration (q.v.). Bashan, Damascus, Syria, and Israel converged there. Jebel esh Tilj, "the mount of ice." Shenir and Hermon are mentioned distinctly, Song of Solomon 4:8. From the plain along the coast, from the Jordan valley, from the heights of Moab and Gilead, from the plateau of Bashan, the pale, blue, snow-capped cone forms the one feature in the northern horizon." The Farah River flowed east and empties into the Jordan River near Shechem and just east of Mount Gerizim. -Schaff.) "Little Hermon, the name now often applied to the hill between Tabor and Gilboa, possibly the Hill of Moreh, on which is the sanctuary of Neby Dahy, has no Biblical authority, and dates only from the Middle Ages.W. 2. The modern name of Hermon is Jebel eth-thilj, "mount of snow," or Jebel esh-sheikh, "mount of the elder," or "of the chief." 7. The Shephelah were the fertile foothills between the Maritime Plain and the Hill Country.3. Sanctuaries:Hermon marked the northern limit of Joshua's victorious campaigns (Joshua 12:1, etc.). Driving distance between Mount Hermon, Lebanon and Mount Zion, Jerusalem, Israel is calculated by google maps and it is 99 mi. The sacredness of Hermon may be inferred from the allusion in Ps 89:12 (compare Enoch 6:6; and see also BAAL-HERMON). In Bible times the Dead Sea was just as salty as it is today. At the top, says Capt. Israel's Major Rivers and Seas1. Jerome refers to this, and no doubt it is one of those Baal high places set up by the former inhabitants, and so often condemned in the Old Testament. Mount Tabor was famous for Deborah's victory (Judges 4:6).6. 4. The Banias issues from a celebrated fountain near the town of Banias, which is identified as the Caesarea Philippi associated with the transfiguration. It marks the north boundary of Israel (Deut. The Aleppo pine, the oak, and the poplar are plentiful. The entire land of Canaan was approximately 6,6oo square miles. Jos 4:12,13 From their vicinity to Jerusalem the lower fords were much used. Still Bethshan and Jericho to the west, Gerasa, Pella and Gadara to the east of it were important cities, and caused a good deal of traffic between the two opposite banks.

and [if] in the land of peace, [wherein] thou trustedst, [they wearied thee], then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?Joshua 18:12 - And their border on the north side was from Jordan; and the border went up to the side of Jericho on the north side, and went up through the mountains westward; and the goings out thereof were at the wilderness of Bethaven.Joshua 22:25 - For the LORD hath made Jordan a border between us and you, ye children of Reuben and children of Gad; ye have no part in the LORD: so shall your children make our children cease from fearing the LORD.Numbers 35:14 - Ye shall give three cities on this side Jordan, and three cities shall ye give in the land of Canaan, [which] shall be cities of refuge.Joshua 4:23 - For the LORD your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were gone over:2 Kings 2:6 - And Elijah said unto him, Tarry, I pray thee, here; for the LORD hath sent me to Jordan.

the thin strip of land was nearly 10 miles wide extending from Phoenicia in the north to Philistia in the south. It was associated with their northern border almost as intimately as the sea was with the western. The "ointment" sets forth "how good" and "precious" is brotherly "unity"; the dew "how pleasant" it is. Ancient Jerusalem - Interactive Study of Jerusalem with Map. 8:22).3. When the spies visited the region, the lake must have been much larger than it is now. It reaches a height of 9,200 ft. above the sea, and extends some 16 to 20 miles from North to South. Lebanon means the "white" mountain, the Mont Blanc of Israel. Description:The name of the majestic mountain in which the Anti-Lebanon range terminates to the South (Deuteronomy 3:8, etc.). Mount Hermon was the source of the Jordan River.2. Maps are essential for any serious Bible study. It is also called Baal-hermon (Judg. There are three distinct heads, rising near the middle of the mass, the two higher being toward the East. 3:9; Cant. The Brook Kidron flowed between Jerusalem and the Mount of Olives eastward emptying into the Dead Sea (John 18:1). (2.) Ewing, "sacred (mountain)," a mountain in S. Aram (Syria) and Northern Israel, Hermon (Mount Hermon) and surrounding area.

The river is here only about 60 ft. broad, and in less than 9 miles descends 689 ft. through a narrow rocky gorge, where it meets the delta which it has deposited at the head of the Sea of Galilee, and slowly winds its way to meet its waters. The Arnon River also flowed westward but into the Dead Sea forming the boundary between Israel and Moab (Joshua 13:15, 16). - -ED.) 42:6) because it has more than one summit. The Sea of Galilee was also known as the Sea of Tiberias, and the Sea of Chinnereth. Jos 2:7 comp. Our Lord and his disciples climbed this "high mountain apart" one day, and remained on its summit all night, "weary after their long and toilsome ascent." The sacredness of Hermon may be inferred from the allusion in Psalm 89:12 (compare Enoch 6:6; and see also BAAL-HERMON).Some have thought that the scene of the Transfiguration should be sought here; see, however, TRANSFIGURATION, MOUNT OF.The modern name of Hermon is Jebel eth-thilj, "mount of snow," or Jebel esh-sheikh, "mount of the elder," or "of the chief. It is also 1300 feet below sea level and was the place of many events in Biblical times. See SIRION; SENIR; SION. But a Hermon dew was a dew such as falls there, the snow on the summit condensing the summer vapors which float in the higher air, and causing light clouds to hover round and abundant dew to fall on it, while the air is elsewhere without a cloud and the whole country parched. Refreshing breezes blow from its cold heights. And when Joshua sent them away also unto their tents, then he blessed them,Numbers 32:29 - And Moses said unto them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over Jordan, every man armed to battle, before the LORD, and the land shall be subdued before you; then ye shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession:Deuteronomy 3:27 - Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold [it] with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan.Deuteronomy 12:10 - But [when] ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the LORD your God giveth you to inherit, and [when] he giveth you rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety;Joshua 13:8 - With whom the Reubenites and the Gadites have received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond Jordan eastward, [even] as Moses the servant of the LORD gave them;Zechariah 11:3 - [There is] a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled.Joshua 1:11 - Pass through the host, and command the people, saying, Prepare you victuals; for within three days ye shall pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land, which the LORD your God giveth you to possess it.Judges 10:8 - And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel: eighteen years, all the children of Israel that [were] on the other side Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which [is] in Gilead.Deuteronomy 27:2 - And it shall be on the day when ye shall pass over Jordan unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, that thou shalt set thee up great stones, and plaister them with plaister:Joshua 18:19 - And the border passed along to the side of Bethhoglah northward: and the outgoings of the border were at the north bay of the salt sea at the south end of Jordan: this [was] the south coast. Nu 34:12 The Jordan rises from several sources near Panium (Banias), and passes through the lakes of Merom (Huleh) and Gennesaret. Mount Gilead, was east of the Jordan and famous for the balm of healing (Jer. (The whole descent from its source to the Dead Sea is 3000 feet. The Natural Divisions (Five Great Divisions)There were five natural divisions laying parallel to each other running through the entire land from north to south. 8. The part held by the Sidonians was "Sirion," that by the Amorites Shenir, infested by devouring "lions" and swift though stealthy "leopards," in contrast to "the mountain of myrrh" (Song of Solomon 5:6), the mountain of the Lord's house (Isaiah 2:2), the good land (Isaiah 35:9).