Adam

Adam was a town on the east bank of the Jordan about 30 km north of Jericho, near the modern crossing at Damiya. Joshua 3:16 records the moment the priests carrying the Ark stepped into the flood-stage river and the waters "rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that is beside Zaretan." The waters were dammed all the way up at Adam, letting the nation cross on dry ground. The gorge at Adam is geologically prone to landslides — historic events in 1267, 1546, 1834, and 1927 each temporarily blocked the Jordan — so the biblical miracle was the timing rather than the mechanism.