Zaretan

So the water is coming from upstream, from the north.

They piled up at a single column, very far from Adam, a town on the side of Zarethan.

We'll soon see why I mentioned these two towns.

And flowing downstream, the waters that were flowing downstream to the Sea of Araba, that's the Dead Sea, they ran out completely.

It would flood everything within 20 kilometers.

There was so much water.

So what's the other town? The other town is Zarethan.

So both towns were north of Jericho.

So this was a courageous move on their part to step in, to move forward.

And the waters coming down from above stood and rose up in a heap from far away at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan and those flowing downstream.

The Sea of Arabah, that's the Dead Sea, the Salt Sea, were completely cut off and the people passed over opposite to Jericho.

That is, they went through.

Now the pots, the shovels, and the basins, all these vessels in the house of the Lord, which Hiram made for King Solomon, were of burnished bronze.

In the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan.

And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because there were so many of them, the weight of the bronze was not ascertained.

So Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of the Lord, the golden altar, the golden table for the bread of the presence, the lampstands of pure gold, five on the south side and five on the north, before the inner sanctuary, the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs of gold, the cups, snuffers, basins, dishes for incense, and firepans of pure gold, and the sockets of gold for the doors of the innermost part of the house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the nave of the temple.

"Huram-Abi made all these things of burnished bronze for the temple of the Lord, just as King Solomon had directed.

The king had them cast in clay molds in the Jordan Valley between Succoth and Zarethan." Where is that? And how far away is that? And how heavy was all this stuff, and how did they move it? You know? And how did they get all the gold put together? [laughs] "Solomon used such great quantities of bronze that its weight could not be determined.

He used such great quantities of bronze that its weight could not be determined." If you research into that, it's like, like he didn't even count.

Like, it is what it is.

Verse sixteen.

The waters coming down from above stood and rose up in a heap very far away, at Adam, the city that is beside Zaretan.

The word heap here is nete, nete.

The same word Moses sang at the Red Sea in Exodus fifteen.

Yet as soon as the priests who carried the ark reached the Jordan and their feet touched the water's edge, the water from upstream stopped flowing.

It piled up in a heap a great distance away, at a town called Adam in the vicinity of Zarethan, while the water flowing down to the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, was completely cut off.

So the people crossed over opposite Jericho.

The pieas- the priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan, while all the Is- while all of Israel passed by until the whole nation had completed the crossing on dry ground." [gentle music] The crossing of the Jordan River for Israel encapsulates so much of what we've already seen so far in the story of God.

And as those who bore the ark came to the Jordan, the feet of the priests who bore the ark dipped in the edge of the water, for the Jordan overflows its bank during the whole time of harvest.

Then the waters which came down from upstream stood still and rose in a heap very far away at Adam, the city that is beside Zaretan.

So the waters that went down in the Sea of Arabah and the Salt Sea failed and were cut off and the people crossed in the opposite direction.

So the priests entered the water and the water started very fast.

Now the ports, the shovels, and the basins, all these vessels in the house of the Lord, which Hiram made for King Solomon, were of burnished bronze.

In the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, in the clear ground between Sukkoth and Zarethan.

And Solomon left all the vessels and weighed, because there were so many of them, the weight of the bronze was not ascertained.

So Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of the Lord, the golden altar, the golden table for the bread of the presence.