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title: Jordan
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blurb: The eastern side of the Jordan - Moab, Edom, Gilead, Petra.
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region: The Wilderness & Arabia
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scripture: "There is no God like the God of Jeshurun." - Deuteronomy 33:26
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history: Moses saw the promised land from Mount Nebo but did not enter. John baptised Jesus at Bethany-beyond-the-Jordan. Ruth was a Moabitess; Elijah was fed by ravens in the Wadi Cherith. Petra was the capital of the Nabataeans whose king Aretas is named in 2 Corinthians.
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site: Wadi Rum | Exodus 3 - the Midian desert | On our Jordan journeys | upcoming
about: The red-sand valley of the Midian desert where Moses spent forty years keeping sheep before the burning bush. Bedouin tribes still read the stars, track water, and move flocks across the same wadis he did.
site: Petra | Obadiah - the clefts of the rock | On our Jordan journeys | upcoming
about: The rose-red Nabataean capital carved into sandstone cliffs on the edge of Edom. Its narrow Siq and hidden monastery echo the prophets' warnings to those who make their nest on high.
site: Amman | 2 Samuel 11:14-17 - the letter Uriah carried | On our Jordan journeys | upcoming
about: Rabbah of the Ammonites, the city David besieged and where Uriah the Hittite was sent to the front to die. Rebuilt by the Greeks as Philadelphia, one of the ten Decapolis cities, its Roman theatre and citadel still stand in the middle of the modern capital.
site: Baptism Site | John 1:28 - Bethany beyond the Jordan | On our Jordan journeys | upcoming
about: Bethany-beyond-the-Jordan, where John was baptising when Jesus came to him. The same reach of river is where Elijah struck the water and was taken up, and where Joshua crossed into the land. Excavated churches and a stepped pool mark the spot on the east bank.
site: Mt. Nebo | Deuteronomy 34:1-5 - the view Moses was given | On our Jordan journeys | upcoming
about: The ridge from which Moses was shown the whole land and told he would not enter it, and where he died and was buried in a grave nobody has found. On a clear day the Jordan valley, Jericho and the hills of Jerusalem are all visible from the platform.
site: Madaba | Numbers 21:30 - Medeba of the Moabites | On our Jordan journeys | upcoming
about: Biblical Medeba, and now the home of the oldest surviving map of the Holy Land - a sixth-century mosaic floor in St George's Church showing Jerusalem, the Jordan, and the Dead Sea with fish turning back from its salt.
site: Um Qais | Matthew 8:28-34 - the country of the Gadarenes | On our Jordan journeys | upcoming
about: Ancient Gadara, a Decapolis city on a ridge above the Sea of Galilee and the Yarmouk gorge, and the setting of the healing of the demoniac and the herd that ran down the slope. Its black basalt streets and theatre look out over three countries.
site: Pella | Acts 2 and the flight from Jerusalem | On our Jordan journeys | upcoming
about: One of the Decapolis cities, in a green fold of the Jordan valley. Eusebius records that the church in Jerusalem fled here before the city fell in AD 70 - which makes this one of the first places Christians went when staying was no longer possible.
site: Aqaba | 1 Kings 9:26 - Solomon's ships at Ezion-Geber | On our Jordan journeys | upcoming
about: Ezion-Geber, where Solomon built a fleet on the shore of the Red Sea, and where Israel passed on the long way round Edom. Jordan's one stretch of coast, at the head of the gulf, with Egypt, Israel and Saudi Arabia all in sight across the water.