1;  Joshua comes to Jordan.
  2;  The officers instruct the people for their passage.
  7;  The Lord encourages Joshua.
  9;  Joshua encourages the people.
 14;  The water of Jordan are divided.

 * rose early.
   Archbishop Usher supposes, that this was upon Wednesday, the
   28th of April, A.M. 2553, the fortieth year of the Exodus
   from Egypt.  From Shittim, where the israelites had been
   encamped for about two months (De 1:3), to the Jordan, was,
   according to Josephus, about sixty stadia; that is, between
   seven and eight English miles.

  Ge 22:3  Ps 119:60  Jer 7:13  25:3  26:5  Mr 1:35 
 * Shittim.
  2:1  Nu 25:1  Mic 6:5 
 * Jordan.
   Jordan, called by the Arabs El Sharia, takes its rise in
   Anti-Libanus, about twelve miles north of C(9173)area Philippi,
   now Banias; and, having run about twelve miles southward, it
   receives a considerable stream, which is now called the Moiet
   Hasbeia.  About 15; miles farther, it forms the waters of Merom
   or Semechon, now Houle; and, after running about 28; miles
   more, it passes through the lake of Gennesareth, and thence
   runs southward till it loses itself in the Dead Sea; its whole
   course being about 160; miles.