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Joram (JEHORAM the son and successor)

or JEHORAM, the son and successor of Jehoshaphat, King of Judah.

He reigned with his father, from B. C., four years, and four years alone .

He was married to Athaliah , daughter of Ahab and Jezebel, whose evil influence made his reign a curse to the land. He slew his own brothers, five in number , and seized their possessions. He also introduced Phoenician idols and their worship into Judah. A successful revolt of the Edomites, and repeated invasions of the Philistines and Arabians made of his reign a calamity.

JORDAN ("descending"), the principal river of Palestine, the bed of which forms a great valley stretching from N. to S., in the E. part of the country .

It is formed by the junction of three streams. The highest source of the Jordan is the Hasbany, which rises near the Druse town of Ha Hasbeiya, on the W. side Cæsarea of Mount Hermon. There is another spring on the S. side of the same mountain at Bânias (Paneas or Philippi), and the Leddan at Dan. The Jordan flows S., and after a course of a little over 100 miles, having passed through the small Huleh Lake (The Waters of Merom) and the Lake of Tiberius (Sea of Galilee), 682 feet below the Mediterranean, it falls into the N. extremity of the DEAD SEA (q. v.), 1,292 feet below the Mediterranean . Besides smaller affluents, it receives four streams , the Wady Far'ah and Wady Kelt from the W., the Hieromax and Jabbok from the E. The source is 1,700 feet above when it reaches the Dead Sea of 3,000