3:16 plain: The Arabah: see chs. 11:2, 16; 12:1, 3; 18:18; Deut. 1:1. Meaning strictly 'dry-land,' but applied to the narrow strip of land in the Jordan valley on both sides of the river below the lake of Gennesaret. In ch. 4:13 it seems to mean the parts of the Arabah about Jericho.