are we generally aware that the Jordan is almost always like 4 inches deep, except when it is raging? Or even 2 inches deep? Not saying that cuts here and there might not be 4 feet deep, too, but imo there is a point to be made there. Most, the vast majority, of the entire Jordan, could not even get your calves wet! I even recall some cognitive dissonance when i saw it, although i didnt pursue that at the time.
The amazing name Jordan: meaning and etymology
"The name Jordan in the Bible" is brief, and has some interesting reflections in it imo
"how could anyone get baptized in the Jordan river, so shallow"
an interesting search imo
now i dunno what literally happened, but yall should maybe look at some pictures of the Jordan and contemplate what you see
which i just went and did, and most of them are deceiving, note the one "i thought it would be bigger," and i can tell you that this one,
View attachment 7904 is like the Jordan in flood stage, ok. The ones with still stretches you find, look like they could be whatever, 8 feet deep or whatever? With rafts going down them? Thats for like 3-5 days in the spring thaw, and even then its mostly more like 6-10 inches in the deep parts ok.
im telling you idk ezackly whats going on, but "holding back the waters of the Jordan with the ark" is more like a joke, ok, and if you saw it--even in "flood" stage--you would laugh at that right off. Its like some little trickle was purposely chosen to make some point about shallowness or something.
ok, i sure dont know ok, but imo do some investigating
i guess down lower there are some "marshy" pools, which to me invokes Javan right away, dunno if you know about Javan yet though, maybe look him up