Joshua rose up early in the morning; and they removed from Shittim, and came to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel; and they lodged there before they passed over.
In a very real sense, Jordan was the river of death.  It terminated in the Dead Sea, where life is impossible.  The salinity of the Dead Sea surpasses that of any other body of water on earth.  Its waters have been called "a syrup of sodium chloride"!