Series of first aerial photographs of Palestine and Syria. Course of the Jordan and Jabbok

American Colony (Jerusalem). Photo Department · approximately 1900 to 1920 · Library of Congress — G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection

An early aerial photograph showing the course of the Jordan and Jabbok rivers, as Jacob rose up that night and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok (Genesis 32:22).

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