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Adam, the city of
Is referred to in Josh 3:16. It stood “beside Zarethan,” on the west bank of Jordan (1 Kgs 4:12). At this city the flow of the water was arrested and rose up “upon an heap” at the time of the Israelites’ passing over (Josh 3:16).
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
