the waters which were flowing down from above stood and rose up in one heap, a great distance away at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those which were flowing down toward the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were completely cut off. So the people crossed opposite Jericho.OK, my nerd/engineer brain engaged on this verse. What caught my interest is the description of how the waters stopped. When I think of crossing the Jordan, the picture that comes to mind is similar to that of crossing the Red Sea in "The Ten Commandments." I see a big wall of water on both sides of this skinny little dry ground. Maybe the river just stops flowing, and goes into stasis with a dry line through it.
However, that's not what happened. Instead, the water is still flowing, but God has created a supernatural dam upstream to hold back the waters. The water is piling up higher and high up at Adam, and downstream from there, the river is more or less drying up naturally, as the water downstream from Adam continues to flow. Meanwhile, the water is getting deeper/taller upstream, waiting for when it will be released, while downstream the river is just steadily drying up. I wouldn't want to be near that river when the "dam" goes away...
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