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Zaretan or Zarethan (), also known as Zeredathah, is a city mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as near the location where the Hebrews crossed the Jordan (). In the books of Joshua (, KJV "Zaretan") and 1 Kings ( KJV "Zartanah", "Zarthan"), it is called Zarethan, but in 2 Chronicles it is called Zeredathah (, KJV).

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יהודה ושומרון
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Zaretan or Zarethan (), also known as Zeredathah, is a city mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as near the location where the Hebrews crossed the Jordan (). In the books of Joshua (, KJV "Zaretan") and 1 Kings ( KJV "Zartanah", "Zarthan"), it is called Zarethan, but in 2 Chronicles it is called Zeredathah (, KJV).

Zaredathah stood in the Jordan Valley. Nelson Glueck looked for it on the east bank of the river, proposing , but some more recent authors place it on the west bank, one theory identifying it with Tell el-Mazar, also spelled Mezar, in Wadi Far'a. Tell el-Mezar is at the site called in Arabic Qerawa, known from antiquity by the name Korea(i) (κορεα[ι]) or Koreous (Kορεους) and located at the foot of Mount Sartabe.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Zaretan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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