The sea looked and fled; the Jordan River turned back.

The eastern border was the Salt Sea to the mouth of the Jordan River. The northern border started north of the Salt Sea at the mouth of the Jordan,

So the king returned and came to the Jordan River. Now the people of Judah had come to Gilgal to meet the king and to help him cross the Jordan.

Now when Barzillai the Gileadite had come down from Rogelim, he crossed the Jordan with the king so he could send him on his way from there.

So Joshua instructed the priests, “Come up from the Jordan!”

It then descended from Janoah to Ataroth and Naarah, touched Jericho, and extended to the Jordan River.

Why do you flee, O sea? Why do you turn back, O Jordan River?

They camped by the Jordan, from Beth-jeshimoth as far as Abel-shittim in the plains of Moab.

So it was in the Transjordan, in Moab, that Moses began to deliver these words:

Then Moses selected three cities in the Transjordan, toward the east.

including all the Arabah of the Transjordan in the east to the sea of the Arabah, beneath the watershed of Pisgah.)

“Instruct the priests carrying the ark of the covenantal laws to come up from the Jordan.”

The people went up from the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month and camped in Gilgal on the eastern border of Jericho.

Now Joshua set up in Gilgal the twelve stones they had taken from the Jordan.

explain to your children, ‘Israel crossed the Jordan River on dry ground.’

They took all the Amorite territory from the Arnon River on the south to the Jabbok River on the north, from the desert in the east to the Jordan in the west.

Meanwhile David had gone to Mahanaim, while Absalom and all the men of Israel had crossed the Jordan River.

The king had them cast in earth foundries in the region of the Jordan between Succoth and Zarethan.

“Leave here and travel eastward. Hide out in the Kerith Valley near the Jordan.

So he did as the Lord told him; he went and lived in the Kerith Valley near the Jordan.