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Want to know what the Bible says about Jordan? Here are 37 Bible verses about Jordan from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Matthew 3:13 NIV
Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptized by John.
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Psalm 114:3 NIV
The sea looked and fled,
    the Jordan turned back;
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Jeremiah 12:5 NIV
“If you have raced with men on foot
    and they have worn you out,
    how can you compete with horses?
If you stumble in safe country,
    how will you manage in the thickets by the Jordan?
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Mark 1:9 NIV
At that time Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan.
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2 Samuel 17:22 NIV
So David and all the people with him set out and crossed the Jordan. By daybreak, no one was left who had not crossed the Jordan.
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Joshua 3:15 NIV
Now the Jordan is at flood stage all during harvest. Yet as soon as the priests who carried the ark reached the Jordan and their feet touched the water’s edge,
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Matthew 3:6 NIV
Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.
19
Judges 7:24 NIV
Gideon sent messengers throughout the hill country of Ephraim, saying, “Come down against the Midianites and seize the waters of the Jordan ahead of them as far as Beth Barah.”
So all the men of Ephraim were called out and they seized the waters of the Jordan as far as Beth Barah.
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2 Kings 2:14 NIV
He took the cloak that had fallen from Elijah and struck the water with it. “Where now is the Lord, the God of Elijah?” he asked. When he struck the water, it divided to the right and to the left, and he crossed over.
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Genesis 32:10 NIV
I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness you have shown your servant. I had only my staff when I crossed this Jordan, but now I have become two camps.
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