A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible (1871) (14783506473)

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Title: A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible
Year: 1871 (1870s)
Authors: Smith, William, 1813-1893 Barnum, Samuel W. (Samuel Weed), 1820-1891, ed
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Publisher: New York, London, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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horam).1. Son of Ahab, king of Israel (2 K. viii. 16, 25, 28,29, ix. 14, 17, 21-23, 29); = Jehoram 1.—2. Sonof Jehoshaphat, king of Judah (2 K. viii. 21, 23,24 ; 1 Chr. iii. 11; 2 Chr. xxii. 5, 7; Mat. i. 8); =Jehoram 2.—3. A Levite, ancestor of Shelomith inthe time of David (1 Chr. xxvi. 25).—4. Son of Toi,king of Hamath (2 Sam. viii. 10); = Hadoram 2.—5. Jozabad 4 (1 Esd. i. 9). Jordan (fr. Heb. Yarden = the flowing, the riverGes., Fii., Rbn., &c. ; the descender, Mr. Ffoulkes,Ptr., Stl.; Gr. Iordan.es ; L. Jordanis), now calledby the Arabs esh-Sheriah (= the watering-place),sometimes with the addition of el-Kebir( — the great);a river that has never been navigable, flowing intoa sea that has never known a port. It windsthrough scenery remarkable rather for samenessand tameness than for bold outline. Its course isnot much above 200 miles from first to last—fromthe roots of Anti-Lebanon to the head of the DeadSea. Such is the river of the li great plain of JOR JOR 495
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496 JOR JOR Palestine—if not the rives of God in the Bookof Psalms, at least that of His chosen peoplethroughout their history. The earliest allusion toJordan is not so much to the river itself as to thewell-watered plain or plains which it traversed(Gen. xiii. 10). There were fords over against Jer-icho, to which point the men of Jericho pursuedthe spies (Josh. ii. 7; compare Judg. iii. 28).Higher up, perhaps over against Succoth, some wayabove where the little river Jabbok (Zerka) entersthe Jordan, were the fords or passages of Beth-barah (probably the Bethabara of the Gospel),where Gideon lay in wait for the Midianites (Judg.vii. 24), and where the men of Gilead slew theEphraimites (xii. 6). These fords undoubtedly (soMr. Ffoulkes) witnessed the first recorded passageof the Jordan in the 0. T., viz. by Jacob (Gen. xxxii.10). Jordan was crossed over against Jericho byJoshua the son of Nun, at the head of the descend-ants of Jacob (Josh. iv. 12, 13). From their vicin-ity to Jerusal