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.

2 Maccabees 2: 4-10, written around 100 BC, says that the prophet Jeremiah, " being warned by God " before the Babylonian invasion, took the Ark, the Tabernacle, and the Altar of Incense, and buried them in a cave on Mount Nebo ( Jordan ), informing those of his followers who wished to find the place that it should remain unknown " until the time that God should gather His people again together, and receive them unto mercy.

* 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.

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.

* 1978 – King Hussein of Jordan marries American Lisa Halaby, who takes the name Queen Noor.

He was hard pressed by the predations of Hazael, king of the Arameans, who is said to have defeated his army " throughout all of the territories of Israel " beyond the Jordan river, in the lands of Gilead, Gad, Reuben, and Manasseh ( f ).

He is described in the Gospel of Luke as a relative of Jesus who led a movement of baptism at the Jordan River.

In contrast to Vincent, historian William Chester Jordan concludes that the pair were a " companionable couple " who had a successful marriage by the standards of the day.

* Mars Blackmon, a character who appeared in She's Gotta Have It and commercials for Air Jordan shoes

* 1970 – Attempted assassination of King Hussein of Jordan by Palestinian guerrillas, who attacked his motorcade.

In 1085 the Normans entered Syracuse, one of the last Arab strongholds, after a summer-long siege by Roger I of Sicily and his son Jordan of Hauteville, who was given the city as count.

Lombardi also made a big trade with the Cleveland Browns that brought three players to the team who would become cornerstones of the defense: linemen Henry Jordan, Willie Davis, and Bill Quinlan.

Dallas also had an outstanding trio of linebackers: Pro Bowler Chuck Howley, who recorded 5 interceptions and returned them for 122 yards ; Dave Edwards 2 interceptions ; and Lee Roy Jordan, who recorded 2 interceptions.

The film was known as The Soldier's Wife for much of the production, but Stanley Kubrick, who was a friend of Neil Jordan, counselled against the title saying that audiences would expect a war film.

Jordan also believed the film's success was a result of the film's British / Irish political issues being either lesser-known or completely unknown to American audiences, who thus flocked to the film for what Jordan called " the sexual politics.

* June 15 – King Hussein of Jordan marries 26-year-old Lisa Halaby, who takes the name Queen Noor.

Guinness was made up to look as much like the real Faisal as possible ; he recorded in his diaries that, while shooting in Jordan, he met several people who had known Faisal who actually mistook him for the late prince.

Co-manager Hamilton Jordan threatened to quit, and on July 15, Ed Rollins resigned after Perot fired advertisement specialist Hal Riney, who worked with Rollins on the Reagan campaign.

After the decline of the Abbasids, parts of Jordan were ruled by various powers and empires including the Mongols, the Crusaders, the Ayyubids, the Mamlukes as well as the Ottomans, who captured major parts of the Arab World around 1517.

The use of Jordan River's water as a vital regional resource was the cause of the war confirmed by Ariel Sharon who has said, People generally regard June 5, 1967, as the day the Six Day War began.

King Abdullah I of Jordan decided to grant citizenship to the Arab refugees and residents living in the West Bank against the wishes of many Arab leaders who still hoped to establish an Arab state.

Perhaps this meal was like the 1932ish Baghdad tea, where she stares " unbelievingly ", horrified by the first hint of the future, when her host Dr Jordan, Director of Antiquities, pausing while playing Beethoven, says " Our Jews are perhaps different from yours.

A fateful battle was fought in the Wood of Ephraim ( the name suggests a locality west of the Jordan ) and Absalom's army was completely routed.

Ammon (; ), also referred to as the Ammonites and children of Ammon, was an ancient nation described in the Old Testament to be located east of the Jordan River, Gilead, and the Dead Sea, in present-day Jordan .< ref >

Alfonso Jordan () ( 1103 – 1148 ) was the Count of Tripoli from 1105 until 1109 and thereafter Count of Toulouse ( as Alfonso I ) until his death.

He was surnamed Jordan after being baptised in the Jordan River.

When the Ark was borne by priests into the bed of the Jordan, water in the river separated, opening a pathway for the entire host to pass through ( Josh.

When the Israelites, led by Joshua toward the Promised Land, arrived at the banks of the River Jordan, the Ark was carried in the lead preceding the people and was the signal for their advance ( Joshua 3: 3, 6 ).

According to Hippolytus of Rome ( Philosophumena, VII, xxiii ) Theodotus taught that Jesus was a man born of a virgin, according to the Council of Jerusalem, that he lived like other men, and was most pious ; but that at his baptism in the Jordan the " Christ " came down upon the man Jesus in the likeness of a dove.

Jordan retained control of the city until the Six-Day War in 1967, when Bethlehem was occupied by Israel, along with the rest of the West Bank.

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

* Robert Jordan chronology — A Conan Chronology by Robert Jordan ( 1987 ) was a new chronology written by Conan writer Robert Jordan that included all written Conan material up to that point.

Tex Schramm was believed to be a " one-man committee " in choosing inductees and many former Cowboys players and fans felt that Schramm deliberately excluded linebacker Lee Roy Jordan because of a bitter contract dispute the two had during Jordan's playing days.

On " Alone Again, Natura-Diddily ", a Christian rock singer named Rachel Jordan ( played by singer-songwriter Shawn Colvin ) sings that she " was drinking like a Dartmouth boy.

DFLP was badly hit by the 1970 September crack-down in Jordan ( Black September ).

Around three million years ago, what is now the valley of the Jordan River, Dead Sea, and Wadi Arabah was repeatedly inundated by waters from the Mediterranean Sea.

Beginning in the 1960s, water inflow to the Dead Sea from the Jordan River was reduced as a result of large-scale irrigation and generally low rainfall.

The delta of the Jordan River was formerly a veritable jungle of papyrus and palm trees.

The economic impact of the Iraq crisis in Jordan has been mixed.

West Jordan is a rapidly growing suburb of Salt Lake City and has a mixed economy.

There was some synthesis with Arab peoples ( and possibly Greeks and Phoenicians also ), and the Nabatean civilisation of what is today Jordan and southern Syria had an essentially a mixed Aramean-Arab identity.

The first live line-up was Harris with Kathy Foster on bass, Jordan Hudson ( also of M. Ward ) on drums and Ben Barnett on guitar Their follow up album Fuckin A was mixed by Death Cab For Cutie member Chris Walla.

Jordan also won the mixed doubles title at the 1983 French Open with Eliot Teltscher.