Mount Hor
Mount Hor, where Aaron died and was buried during Israel's wilderness journey.
PlaceOld Testament2 books10 verses
Summary
A location at Mt. Hermon first mentioned at Numbers 20:22; called Hor Mount (הֹר).
Location
- Identified as
- Har Zin
- Certainty
- Possible (34% of scholarship) · 4 other possible locations
- Coordinates
- 30.832° N, 35.057° E
Glossary entries
Alternative names
- הֹרMount Hor
Mentions
- After they had set out from Kadesh, the whole congregation of Israel came to Mount Hor.
- And at Mount Hor, near the border of the land of Edom, the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
- Take Aaron and his son Eleazar and bring them up Mount Hor.
- So Moses did as the LORD had commanded, and they climbed Mount Hor in the sight of the whole congregation.
- Then they set out from Mount Hor along the route to the Red Sea, in order to bypass the land of Edom. But the people grew impatient on the journey
- They set out from Kadesh and camped at Mount Hor, on the outskirts of the land of Edom.
- At the LORD’s command, Aaron the priest climbed Mount Hor and died there on the first day of the fifth month, in the fortieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt.
- Aaron was 123 years old when he died on Mount Hor.
- And the Israelites set out from Mount Hor and camped at Zalmonah.
- And there on the mountain that you climb, you will die and be gathered to your people, just as your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people.