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Mount Ebal

Mount Ebal, also known as Mount Zalmon or Mount Ephraim, was a mountain in Canaan where the Israelites held a ceremony of curses and blessings.
PlaceOld Testament5 books8 verses

Summary

A location first mentioned at Deuteronomy 11:29; referred to as Ebal Mount (עֵיבָל), (Mount) Zalmon (צַלְמוֹן), or (Mount )Ephraim (אֶפְרַ֫יִם).

Location

Certainty
Widely agreed (100% of scholarship)
Coordinates
32.234° N, 35.273° E
Mount Ebal
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Glossary entries

Mount Ebal Salmon (Place)

Alternative names

Mentions

  1. Deuteronomy 11:29עֵיבָל · Mount Ebal
    When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess, you are to proclaim the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.
  2. Deuteronomy 27:4עֵיבָל · Mount Ebal
    And when you have crossed the Jordan, you are to set up these stones on Mount Ebal, as I am commanding you today, and you are to coat them with plaster.
  3. Deuteronomy 27:13עֵיבָל · Mount Ebal
    And these tribes shall stand on Mount Ebal to deliver the curse: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.
  4. Joshua 8:30עֵיבָל · Mount Ebal
    At that time Joshua built an altar on Mount Ebal to the LORD, the God of Israel,
  5. Joshua 8:33עֵיבָל · Mount Ebal
    All Israel, foreigners and citizens alike, with their elders, officers, and judges, stood on both sides of the ark of the covenant of the LORD facing the Levitical priests who carried it. Half of the people stood in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded earlier, to bless the people of Israel.
  6. Judges 9:48צַלְמוֹן · Mount Zalmon
    …he and all his men went up to Mount Zalmon. Abimelech took his axe in his hand and cut a branch from the trees, which he lifted to his shoulder, saying to his men, “Hurry and do what you have seen me do.”
  7. Psalm 68:14צַלְמוֹן · Mount Zalmon
    When the Almighty scattered the kings in the land, it was like the snow falling on Zalmon.
  8. Jeremiah 4:15אֶפְרַ֫יִם · Mount Ephraim
    For a voice resounds from Dan, proclaiming disaster from the hills of Ephraim.