Atad
Town · today near the mouth of the Jordan River
Location likely About 30 km (20 miles, 170 furlongs) northeast of Jerusalem
Named in 2 Verses
- Genesis 50:10 And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
- Genesis 50:11 And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abelmizraim, which is beyond Jordan.
Locations from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Terrain from Natural Earth and NASA SRTM.
