Places of the Bible
Zarethan
now Tell es Saidiyeh; from harper
Where the name appears
Events told in passages that name Zarethan, and how many of their verses do. That is not the same as saying they happened here: a place can be named as a landmark, as somewhere being travelled to, or as the subject of a prophecy.
A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length. The fainter the mark, the fewer verses name the place.
- Crossing the Jordan into Canaan · 1450 BC · 1 verse
- Reign of Solomon · 1014 BC · 1 verse
Easton’s Bible Dictionary
When the Hebrews crossed the Jordan, as soon as the feet of the priests were dipped in the water, the flow of the stream was arrested. The point of arrest was the “city of Adam beside Zaretan,” probably near Succoth, at the mouth of the Jabbok, some 30 miles up the river from where the people were encamped. There the water “stood and rose upon an heap.” Thus the whole space of 30 miles of the river-bed was dry, that the tribes might pass over (Josh. 3:16, 17; comp. Ps. 104:3).
From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.
Named in 2 verses
The place, its people and its events come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.