| 1. Gadara (site of Jesus’ miracle of the
Gadarene swine); |
| 2. Pella
(early Christians found refuge here from turmoil and
Roman conquest in Jerusalem after 70 AD; perhaps the
site of Pennuel, where Jacob wrestled with the angel all
night); |
| 3. Brook of Cherith (where Elijah hid
for 3 years upon God’s orders and was fed by
ravens);
|
| 4. Rammoth-gilead (one of six Cities of
Refuge in the Bible; Kings Ahab and Joram wounded in
battles
here);
|
| 5. Jabesh-gilead (its citizens appealed to
Saul for help against the Ammonites, and later retrieved
his body from Beth-shean and buried it at
Jabesh-gilead);
|
| 6. Zaphon
(perhaps Jephthah’s hometown and/or burial
place);
|
| 7. Gerasa/Jerash
(Decapolis town: in the Byzantine era it annually
celebrated the miracle of turning water into
wine;
|
| 8. Succoth (associated with Gideon, Jacob,
King Jeroboam, and bronze castings for King Solomon’s
temple);
|
| 9. Jabbok
River; |
| 10. Rabbath-‘ammoun/ Amman (Uriah the Hittite
died upon order of David); Philadelphia (a Decapolis
city); Ammonite
tower;
|
| 11. Heshbon (capital of the Amorite King
Sihon)
|
| 12. Bethany Beyond the Jordan/Tell Mar
Ellias/Bethabara/Beth-hoglah/Beth-barah/Beth-araba
(where Joshoa, Elijah and Elisha crossed the Jordan
River, Elijah was taken up to heaven, John he Baptist
preached and baptized, and Jesus was baptized and
started his public
ministry);
|
| 13. Mt. Nebo/Pisgah (mountain from where Moses
saw the land of Canaan before dying, and from where the
folk prophet Bala’am was asked by the Moabite King Balak
to curse the Israelites camped below in the Jordan
Balley); |
| 14. Medeba/Madaba (an Amorite and
Moabite town that was later a major center for Byzantine
mosaic art); |
| 15. Machaerus/Mukawir (Herodian fortress where
John the Baptist was imprisoned and
beheaded); |
| 16. Dibon (capital of the Moabite King
Mesha);
|
| 17. Aro’er (the capital of the Amorite King
Sihon, a fortress of the Moabite King Mesha, and the
starting point for David’s
census); |
| 18. Arnon Valley (often the northern boarder
of Moab and the southern boarder of Reuben and
Gad); |
|
19. Sodom and Gomorrah (Early Bronze Age towns
with massive fire
destruction); |
|
20. Kir Moab
(once a capital of Moab where King Mesha offered to
sacrifice his eldest son and stopped an attack by Judah,
Israel and Edom); |
| 21. Zoar
(the town to which Lot and his daughters fled from
Sodom); |
| 22. Zered Valley (where Moses and his people
concluded their desert wanderings and camped on their
journey north towards
Canaan);
|
| 23. Punon (copper mining center and the Exodus
route encampment where Moses made a bronze
serpent);
|
| 24. Bozrah (a capital of Edom, and according
to Isaiah, the place from which the Messiah would
come);
|
| 25. Sela
(the rock from which King Amaziah hurled 10,000 Edomites
to their
death);
|
| 26. Joktheel/Petra/Wadi Mousa (the capital of
the Nabataeans; a place where Moses struck the rock and
brought forth water, Wadi Mousa means ‘Valley of Moses’
in Arabic);
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| 27. Mt. Hor/Aaron’s tomb (where Aarom was
buried and the priesthood was passed on to his son
Eleazer);
|
| 28. Eloth/Aqaba (Edomite and Israelite port
town, perhaps has the oldest known church in the
world)
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