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• Mount GerizimBible

  Mount Gerizim is a mountain south of Shechem. Deuteronomy and Joshua present it as the "mountain of blessing," from which the blessing was proclaimed. It later became the center of Samaritan worship.

• ShechemBible

  Shechem was an ancient Canaanite city in the hill country of Ephraim, situated between Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal. In Scripture it appears as a major setting for covenant and political events from the patriarchal period through the division of the kingdom.

• Deuteronomy 27Bible

  Deuteronomy 27 records Moses' instructions that, after entering Canaan, Israel is to set up on Mount Ebal stones inscribed with the law, together with an altar. It then directs six tribes to stand on Mount Gerizim and six on Mount Ebal, and commands the people to answer "Amen" to each of twelve curses proclaimed by the Levites.

• Joshua 8Bible

  Joshua 8 recounts how, after the Achan incident, Israel captures the city of Ai by means of an ambush, and how Joshua then builds an altar on Mount Ebal and reads the law before the whole congregation.

• Deuteronomy 11Bible

  A chapter of Deuteronomy in which Moses reminds Israel of the Exodus and the events in the wilderness and urges the people to love God and keep His commandments. It contains the promise of rain and an accompanying warning, instruction on teaching children, and the command to pronounce the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.

• Deuteronomy 28Bible

  Deuteronomy 28 is the chapter in which Moses proclaims to Israel the blessings that will follow obedience to the law (vv. 1–14) and the curses that will follow disobedience (vv. 15–68). The section on curses is far longer and foretells, in turn, disease, defeat in battle, siege, captivity, and dispersion.

• Joshua 9Bible

  Joshua 9 tells how the Gibeonites, disguised as envoys from a distant country, made a covenant of peace with Israel. Even after their deception was exposed, they were spared because of the oath and became hewers of wood and drawers of water.

• Deuteronomy 28:1–2Bible Verses

  A promise that all blessings will come upon those who diligently hearken to the voice of God and observe to do His commandments. These verses open a chapter that lists at length the blessings that follow obedience and the curses that follow disobedience. Their use as a basis for prosperity theology has drawn both criticism and rebuttal.

• Mount AraratBible

  Mount Ararat is the name of the mountainous region where Noah's ark came to rest after the Flood, as recorded in Genesis 8:4. The biblical "Ararat" originally referred to an ancient region in what is today eastern Turkey and Armenia.

• Mount SinaiBible

  Mount Sinai is the mountain where Moses received God's call and where Israel received the Ten Commandments and the law and entered into covenant with God. Scripture also calls it Mount Horeb.

• Mount NeboBible

  Mount Nebo is a mountain in the land of Moab, east of the Jordan River. Before his death, Moses climbed it and viewed Canaan, the Promised Land (Deuteronomy 34:1-6).

• Mount CarmelBible

  Mount Carmel is a mountain range in northern Israel that extends inland toward the southeast from the Mediterranean coast. It is best known as the place where Elijah confronted the prophets of Baal and prayed for rain (1 Kings 18).

• Mount of OlivesBible

  The Mount of Olives is a mountain east of Jerusalem, across the Kidron Valley. It is the setting for David's flight from Absalom, Jesus' entry into Jerusalem and his discourse on the end times, his prayer in Gethsemane, and the account of his ascension.

• Mount HermonBible

  Mount Hermon is a high mountain north of the upper Jordan River, at the southern end of the Anti-Lebanon range. In the Old Testament it appears as the northern boundary of the land Israel possessed, and it is well known from "the dew of Hermon" in Psalm 133.

• Mount HorebBible

  Mount Horeb is the mountain the Old Testament calls "the mountain of God." There Moses received God's call from the flame of the burning bush, Israel received the covenant, and Elijah met God. It is generally understood to be the same mountain as Mount Sinai.

• Mount TaborBible

  Mount Tabor is a mountain in the Galilee region of northern Israel, rising northeast of the Jezreel Valley. In the Old Testament it appears as the battleground of Deborah and Barak, and church tradition has long identified it as the Mount of Transfiguration.

• Mount HorBible

  Mount Hor is a mountain in the Book of Numbers. Located on the border of Edom, it is where Aaron died and the place from which Israel set out just before the episode of the bronze serpent. A mountain of the same name also appears on the northern boundary of the Promised Land.

• Mount GilboaBible

  Mount Gilboa is a mountain ridge southeast of the Jezreel Valley. The Bible records it as the place where King Saul and his sons, including Jonathan, died fighting the Philistines.

• Mount ZemaraimBible

  Mount Zemaraim is the mountain on which Abijah, king of Judah, stood and addressed the army of Israel before his battle with Jeroboam, king of the northern kingdom of Israel (2 Chronicles 13:4). It appears to have been located in the hill country of Ephraim, near Bethel.