- The
Zarqa River is
identified with the
biblical river Jabbok.
Biblical Jacob crossed the
Jabbok on his way to Canaan,
after leaving Harran. It
leads west...
- wives, his two maidservants, and his
eleven sons, and he
crossed over the
Jabbok ford. He took them and sent them over the river, and he sent over that which...
-
possessed by Sihon, and the
other half,
separated from it by the
river Jabbok, by Og, king of Bashan.
After the two
kings were defeated, the
region of...
- two
neighboring tells,
separated by the
Zarqa River (the
biblical River Jabbok), an
affluent of the
Jordan River. The two
tells are
commonly identified...
- the east of the
Jordan River,
between the
torrent valleys of
Arnon and
Jabbok, in present-day Jordan. The
chief city of the
country was
Rabbah or Rabbat...
- "camps") is a
place mentioned a
number of
times by the
Bible said to be near
Jabbok, in the same
general area as Jabesh-gilead,
beyond the
Jordan River. Although...
-
servant Jacob."
Jacob then
transported his
family and
flocks across the ford
Jabbok by night, then
recrossed back to send over his possessions,
being left alone...
- far from Succoth, on the east of the
Jordan River and
south of the
river Jabbok in present-day Jordan.
Penuel is
mentioned in the Book of
Genesis as the...
-
indefinite references to it are given.
Jacob crossed it and its tributary, the
Jabbok (the
modern Zarqa River), on his way back from
Haran (Genesis 32:11, 32:23–24)...
- town in the Old
Testament in
Gilead not far from Mahanaim,
north of the
Jabbok river (2
Samuel 9:4–5) in
ancient Israel. It is
mentioned in the Hebrew...
