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The Jews Collecting the Twelve Stones from the River Jordan by Pieter Coecke van Aelst (c. 1535–38). The Twelve Stones (Hebrew: מצבות, romanized: maṣṣəwoṯ) are steles, a common form of marking a spectacular religious event in the days of Kingdom of Judah before the time of King Josiah (Deuteronomy 27:1–8). [1]
Gilgal is mentioned 39 times, in particular in the Book of Joshua, as the place where the Israelites camped after crossing the Jordan River (Joshua 4:19 – 5:12). [1] The Hebrew term Gilgal most likely means "circle of stones". [2] Its name appears in Koine Greek on the Madaba Map. [3]
The Jordan River or River Jordan (Arabic: نَهْر الْأُرْدُنّ, Nahr al-ʾUrdunn; Hebrew: נְהַר הַיַּרְדֵּן, Nəhar hayYardēn), also known as Nahr Al-Sharieat (Arabic: نهر الشريعة), is a 251-kilometre-long (156 mi) endorheic river in the Levant that flows roughly north to south through the Sea of Galilee and drains to the Dead Sea.
An ancient underground quarry in the Jordan Valley was discovered in 2009 by University of Haifa archeologists. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The quarry is located about 3 miles (5 km) north of Jericho , West Bank .
Gilgal I (Hebrew: גלגל) is an archaeological site in the Jordan Valley, West Bank, dated to the early Neolithic period. The site is located 8 mi (13 km) north of ancient Jericho . [ 1 ] The features and artifacts unearthed at Gilgal I shed important light on agriculture in the Levant . [ 2 ]
The Jordanian side uses the names Al-Maghtas, Bethany beyond the Jordan and Baptism(al) Site, while the western part is known as Qasr al-Yahud.The nearby Greek Orthodox Monastery of St John the Baptist has a castle-like appearance (thus qasr, "castle"), and tradition holds that the Israelites crossed the river at this spot (thus al-Yahud, "of the Jews").
Situated in southern Jordan, Wadi Rum features a great variety of desert landforms including sandstone valleys, natural arches, gorges, cliffs, landslides and caverns. The site also contains extensive rock art, inscriptions and archaeological remains, bearing witness to more than 12,000 years of continuous human habitation.
Abila (Arabic: ابيلا) was an ancient city east of the Jordan River in the Plains of Moab, later Peraea, near Livias, about twelve km northeast of the north shore of the Dead Sea. [ citation needed ] The site is identified with modern Khirbet el-Kafrayn , Jordan and identified on the Madaba Map as an unnamed icon.
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