Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'jordan' occurs 201 times in the standard works.

83 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'jordan' in the standard works and contain 41.3% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 38 minutes to read the entire list.

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Josh. 3:11-4:10 (17 in 17 verses)

Josh. 4:16-5:1 (10 in 10 verses)

Num. 33:48-51 (4 in 4 verses)

2 Sam. 19:15-18 (4 in 4 verses)

Josh. 22:10-11 (3 in 2 verses)


Judg. 7:24-25 (3 in 2 verses)

 7:24 And Gideon sent messengers throughout all mount Ephraim, saying, Come down against the Midianites, and take before them the waters unto Beth-barah and Jordan. Then all the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and took the waters unto Beth-barah and Jordan.

 7:25 And they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian, and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side Jordan.




Num. 32:19-21 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Sam. 17:22-24 (3 in 3 verses)

Josh. 3:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 7:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 13:27 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 15:5 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 19:31 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Chr. 6:78 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 13:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Gen. 50:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 4:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 4:46-47 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 11:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 1:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 18:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 19:33-34 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 10:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 12:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 2:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 3:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 182 0 182
Gen. 5 0 5
Num. 21 0 21
Deut. 26 0 26
Josh. 70 0 70
Judg. 12 0 12
1 Sam. 2 0 2
2 Sam. 16 0 16
1 Kgs. 4 0 4
2 Kgs. 9 0 9
1 Chr. 6 0 6
2 Chr. 1 0 1
Job 1 0 1
Ps. 3 0 3
Isa. 1 0 1
Jer. 3 0 3
Ezek. 1 0 1
Zech. 1 0 1
NT 15 0 15
BM 4 0 4
DC 0 0 0
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 201 0 201

Judg. 3:28
And he said unto them, Follow after me: for the Lord hath delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. And they went down after him, and took the fords of Jordan toward Moab, and suffered not a man to pass over.

Judg. 5:17
Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches.

Judg. 7:24
And Gideon sent messengers throughout all mount Ephraim, saying, Come down against the Midianites, and take before them the waters unto Beth-barah and Jordan. Then all the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and took the waters unto Beth-barah and Jordan.

Judg. 7:25
And they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian, and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side Jordan.

Judg. 8:4
And Gideon came to Jordan, and passed over, he, and the three hundred men that were with him, faint, yet pursuing them.

Judg. 10:8
And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel: eighteen years, all the children of Israel that were on the other side Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.

Judg. 10:9
Moreover the children of Ammon passed over Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim; so that Israel was sore distressed.

Judg. 11:13
And the king of the children of Ammon answered unto the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land, when they came up out of Egypt, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and unto Jordan: now therefore restore those lands again peaceably.

Judg. 11:22
And they possessed all the coasts of the Amorites, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and from the wilderness even unto Jordan.

Judg. 12:5
And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay;

Judg. 12:6
Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.