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Jordan (WebBible Encyclopedia) - ChristianAnswers.Net |
 | | Flowing from the southern extremity of Lake Huleh, here almost on a level with the sea, it flows for 2 miles "through a waste of islets and papyrus," and then for 9 miles through a narrow gorge in a foaming torrent onward to the Sea of Galilee (q.v.). |
| | There are two considerable affluents which enter the river between the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea, both from the east. |
| | The Wady Mandhur, called the Yarmuk by the Rabbins and the Hieromax by the Greeks. |
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