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The Jordan Blockage Reexamined (Joshua 3:15–16) 9/25/2015 - by Bryant G. Wood PhD

When the Israelites crossed the Jordan River to enter the Promised Land, the waters were miraculously blocked so that they were able to cross on dry land: “the water from upstream stopped flowing. It piled up in a heap a great distance away, at a town called Adam…while the water flowing down to the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) was completely cut off” (Joshua 3:16).