Jabbok
Where Jabbok sits on the map, and the 7 verses where it appears, in biblical order and linked to the full chapter.
- Identified with
- Zarqa River
- Coordinates
- 32.1153, 35.5431
- Mentions
- 7 mentions
Coordinates and the modern identification come from the open atlas at OpenBible.info. For regions, peoples and large features there is no identification: the marked point only places the area on the map, and stands for neither a particular site nor its boundaries.
Passages where it appears
7 verses, in biblical order.
Genesis
- Genesis 32:22
And when he had arisen early, he took his two wives, and the same number of handmaids, with his eleven sons, and he crossed over the ford of Jabbok.
Numbers
- Numbers 21:24
And he was struck down by them with the edge of the sword, and they possessed his land from Arnon, even to Jabbok and the sons of Ammon. For the borders of the Ammonites were held by a strong fortress.
Deuteronomy
- Deuteronomy 2:37
except the land of the sons of Ammon, which we did not approach, and all that is adjacent to the torrent Jabbok, and the cities in the mountains, and all the places which the Lord our God prohibited to us.”
- Deuteronomy 3:16
And to the tribes of Ruben and Gad, I gave from the land of Gilead as far as the torrent Arnon, one half of the torrent and its confines, even to the torrent Jabbok, which is along the border of the sons of Ammon,
Joshua
- Joshua 12:2
Sihon, the king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon, and who had dominion from Aroer, which is situated on the bank of the torrent Arnon, and the valley in the middle, and one half of Gilead, as far as the torrent Jabbok, which is the border of the sons of Ammon,
Judges
- Judges 11:13
And he responded to them, “It is because Israel took my land, when he ascended from Egypt, from the parts of Arnon, as far as the Jabbok and the Jordan. Now therefore, restore these to me with peace.”
- Judges 11:22
with all its parts, from the Arnon as far as the Jabbok, and from the wilderness even to the Jordan.