Certainly, the meaning is clearer to one who is not familiar with Biblical teachings, in the New English Bible which reads: `` Then Jesus arrived at Jordan from Galilee, and he came to John to be baptized by him.

* 1952 – Hussein bin Talal is proclaimed King of Jordan.

* In episode 13, season 2 of 30 Rock entitled Succession Tracey Jordan says that he is Mozart and Frank is the guy who was always jealous of Mozart.

* 1987 – The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan.

Other scholars, including C. C. Torrey, Kline and Jordan argue that the word is derived from the Hebrew moed (), meaning " assembly ".

Thus, " Armageddon " would mean " Mountain of Assembly ," which Jordan says is " a reference to the assembly at Mount Sinai, and to its replacement, Mount Zion.

The city is located northeast of Gaza and the Mediterranean Sea, west of Amman, Jordan, southeast of Tel Aviv, Israel and south of Jerusalem.

( God's speech foreshadows major themes of the book: the crossing of the Jordan and conquest of the land, its distribution, and the imperative need for obedience to the Law ; Joshua's own immediate obedience is seen in his speeches to the Israelite commanders and to the Transjordanian tribes, and the Transjordanians ' affirmation of Joshua's leadership echoes Yahweh's assurances of victory ).

The Israelites cross the Jordan through the miraculous intervention of God and his ark and are circumcised at Gibeath-Haaraloth ( translated as hill of foreskins ), renamed Gilgal in memory ( Gilgal sounds like Gallothi, I have removed, but is more likely to translate as circle of standing stones ).

The potential disunity of Israel is a constant theme, the greatest threat of disunity coming from the tribes east of the Jordan, and there is even a hint in chapter 22: 19 that the land across the Jordan is unclean and the tribes who live there are of secondary status.

The land east of the Jordan is divided among the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

Ironically, by today's standard, Gauss's own attempt is not acceptable, owing to implicit use of the Jordan curve theorem.

" Writer June Jordan described Alston as " an American artist of first magnitude, and he is a Black American artist of undisturbed integrity.

In a few countries such as Jordan and Singapore ( see Singapore Civil Defence Force ), civil defense is essentially the same organisation as the fire brigade.

The Jordan – Hölder theorem is a more precise way of stating this fact about finite groups.

The Dead Sea (,,, " Sea of Salt ", also,, " The Sea of Death "), also called the Salt Sea, is a salt lake bordering Jordan to the east and Israel and the West Bank to the west.

It lies in the Jordan Rift Valley, and its main tributary is the Jordan River.

The Sea of Galilee ( Kinneret ) is situated in northeast Israel, near the Golan Heights, in the Jordan Rift Valley, the valley caused by the separation of the African and Arabian Plates.

1982 saw the incorporation of the City of Draper, a town once situated at the south-east end of the Salt Lake Valley, their incorporated boundaries, uncontested by Riverton, took area all of the area eastward from the Jordan River to the I-15 freeway, an area that was once " loosely " considered or referred to as Riverton or " Riverton Siding ".

The original plat was essentially one square mile, situated on an alluvial terrace running north and south along the eastern edge of the Jordan River drainage system and paralleling the mountain range.

The historical part of the town is situated on the summit of an isolated hill separated from the surrounding country by the Lužnice river and by an extensive lake, to which the Hussites gave the biblical name of Jordan.

John Lightfoot rejects Tabor as too far but " some mountain near Caesarea-Philippi " The usual candidate in this case is Mount Panium, Paneas, or Banias a small hill situated at the source of the Jordan, near the foot of which, Caesarea Philippi was built.

Wadi Feynan Eco-Lodge, opened in Feynan, Jordan in 2005 by the Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature, is a candle-lit eco-lodge situated deep in the Arabah's remote landscape.

In the Bible, " Gilead " () means hill of testimony or mound of witness, (), a mountainous region east of the Jordan River, situated in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

Ariel is situated about east of the Green Line and west of the Jordan River, Jordan's western border.

A more substantial archaeological survey was undertaken in the middle of the 20th century, while the site was in the possession of Jordan, in the region of the mountain known as Tel el-Ras, situated on the northernmost peak at the end of the northern ridge.

Daybreak Community, the first part of the process, is situated on in the city of South Jordan where 20, 000 homes and up to of commercial space are planned.

The Amman Baccalaureate School ( ABS ) is situated on the west side of Amman in Jordan ; it was established in 1981 by the Hashemite Society for Education, a charitable society registered with the Ministry of Social Development.

His mausoleum is situated in Amman ( the capital of. Jordan ) in the city of Moutha.

Jordan Hill Roman Temple is a Roman ruin situated on Jordan Hill above Bowleaze Cove in the eastern suburbs of Weymouth in Dorset, England.

Austin Station ( Chinese: 柯士甸站 ), formerly known as West Kowloon Station in its planning and construction stages, is an underground MTR railway station on the West Rail Line in Hong Kong, situated perpendicular to Wui Cheung Road and Austin Road West, and formerly Jordan Road Ferry Pier Bus Terminus.

It is situated just above the railway from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, which also served as the armistice line between Israel and Jordan from 1948 to 1967.

He wrote about his visit to Rosh Pinna in 1886, " Jauna, which was the name of the village to which I was bound, was situated about three miles ( 5 km ) from Safed, in a gorge, from which, as we descended it, a magnificent view was obtained over the Jordan valley, with the Lake of Tiberias lying three thousand feet below us on the right, and the waters of Merom, or the Lake of Huleh, on the left.

The desert is in the southwest and central provinces along the borders with Saudi Arabia and Jordan and geographically belongs with the Arabian Peninsula.

Robert Jordan is very clear that the world before the Breaking was much different geographically, and thus physical descriptions must first differentiate between the planet ’ s appearance in the Age of Legends or “ The World Since the Breaking ” ( after insane male Aes Sedai and the Dark One's minions shattered the world, drastically altering it geographically ).

Led up refers specifically to moving upwards geographically, likely linking to climbing from the river side of the Jordan to a location of higher latitude in the wilderness.

The Jordan River is a river flowing south and draining into the Dead Sea in Southwest Asia.

By 572 Nebuchadnezzar was in full control of Mesopotamia, Aramea ( Syria ), Phonecia, Israel, Judah, Philistinia, Samarra, Jordan, northern Arabia and parts of Asia Minor.

* Hanafi ( The Levant, Iraq, Turkey, the Balkans, Central Asia, Indian subcontinent, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Jordan, China and Egypt )

* Shafi ' i ( Yemen, Somalia, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Southern Iran, Muslim Southeast Asia, Jordan, Egypt, Swahili Coast, Maldives and southern parts of India )

Christianity spread initially from Jerusalem throughout the Near East, into places such as Syria, Assyria, Mesopotamia, Phoenicia, Asia Minor, Jordan and Egypt.

The term is also occasionally employed to refer to modern or contemporary events, peoples, states or parts of states in the same region, namely Cyprus, Iraq, Israel, the Palestinian territories, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria ( compare with Near East, Middle East, Eastern Mediterranean and Western Asia ).

It is not clear when and where olive trees were first domesticated: in Asia Minor in the 6th millennium ; Greece has by far the largest per capita consumption of olive oil worldwide, over 26 liters per person per year ; Spain and Italy, around 14 l ; Tunisia, Portugal, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon, around 8 l. Northern Europe and North America consume far less, around 0. 7 l, but the consumption of olive oil outside its home territory has been rising steadily.

The Syrian Arab Republic is an Arab country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest.

* Asiatic cheetah ( Acinonyx jubatus venaticus ): Asia ( Afghanistan, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Russia )

The Jordan River ( American English ) or River Jordan ( British English ) ( Hebrew: נהר הירדן Nehar haYarden, Nahr al-Urdun ) is a long river in West Asia flowing to the Dead Sea.

Headquartered in Washington, D. C., it has field offices in about a dozen countries, including Ukraine, Hungary, Serbia, Jordan, Mexico, and also countries in Central Asia.

Countries of origin for Arab Americans include Lebanon, Syria, Palestine ( mostly pre-1948 Palestine Christians as well as what since corresponds to the Gaza Strip and West Bank, plus Arab citizens of Israel ), Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait in West Asia and Libya, Sudan, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Mauritania and Morocco ( plus also Sahrawis from the disputed Western Sahara ) in North Africa.

* Caracal caracal schmitzi ( Matschie, 1912 ), Israel, West Asia, Iran, Arabia, Pakistan, India, Jordan

According to Jordan, he'd planned to meet up with John Mayer and Willie Weeks in January, 2005 to perform a benefit concert on a NBC sponsored telethon Tsunami Aid: A Concert of Hope to raise funds and public awareness benefiting victims in the aftermath of the tsunami that struck southeast Asia.

The Roman Empire in the time of Hadrian ( ruled AD 117 – 38 ), showing, in western Asia, the imperial province of Arabia Petraea ( Jordan / NW Saudi Arabia / Sinai ).

After getting off to an awful start by not winning the first two matches of the six, he was sacked by the Jordan Football Association and replaced by the Iraqi Adnan Hamad, one of the best coaches in Asia known for his big successes with his national team Iraq as head coach, as well as Iraq U-23 and other Iraq youth teams, and clubs.

Jordanus or Jordan Catalani ( f. 1321-1330 ) was a French Dominican missionary and explorer in Asia known for his Mirabilia describing the marvels of the East.

West Asia consists of Turkey, Syria, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, Palestinian territories, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Oman and Yemen.

In the hastily-assembled team for the 2007 FIBA Asia Championship in Tokushima, the PBA-backed Philippine team defeated China, which didn't send their best team since they already qualified for the 2008 Olympics, but lost to Iran and Jordan to bow out of contention.

His positions included: Director General of the Foreign Service and Director of Personnel for the U. S. Department of State ; Deputy Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations ; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Near East and South Asian Affairs ; Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Near East and South Asia ; Deputy Chief of Mission, American Embassy, Amman, Jordan, and Embassy Sanaa, Yemen ; head of the U. S. Liaison Office, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia ; and Deputy Principal Officer, U. S. Interests Section, Damascus, Syria.

In the 1980s and 90 ’ s, as a cultural ambassador for the United States Information Agency, he traveled throughout South Asia, Egypt, Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian West Bank.

This hair color is less common further south and southeast, but can occur somewhat regularly in Southern Europe ( more so in Spain, Portugal and Italy ) and North Africa, Lebanon, west Syria, Palestinian territories, Jordan, Northern Iran, Central Iran, and sometimes Central Asia.

In 2005, Mayer and Jordan had committed to a telethon on NBC, with bassist Willie Weeks entitled Tsunami Aid: A Concert of Hope to raise funds and public awareness benefiting victims in the aftermath of the tsunami that struck southeast Asia.