Zaretan

Zaretan (also Zererath, Zeredah, Zarthan) was a place near the Jordan River associated with two significant events. When Israel crossed the Jordan into Canaan, the waters coming down from the north piled up in a heap very far away, at a city called Adam, beside Zaretan (Joshua 3:16), creating a dry crossing approximately 30 miles long. This miraculous crossing deliberately echoed the crossing of the Red Sea. Later, Solomon cast the bronze vessels for the temple in the clay ground of the Jordan valley between Succoth and Zaretan (1 Kings 7:46; 2 Chronicles 4:17 reads Zeredah). The exact site is uncertain but is generally placed near the confluence of the Jabbok with the Jordan.