Mount Seir
Mount Seir appears in 34 verses of the Bible, from Genesis to Ezekiel.
- Mountain · Bible atlas
- Near Jebel esh Shera, 180 km south of Jerusalem
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- 2 proposed sites
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Key passages
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and the Horites at Mount Seir, as far as El-paran at the edge of the wilderness.
Genesis 14:6 · Read the chapter -
Edom will be taken over, and Seir, its enemy, will be conquered, while Israel marches on in triumph.
Numbers 24:18 · Read the chapter -
Normally it takes only eleven days to travel from Mount Sinai to Kadesh-barnea, going by way of Mount Seir.
Deuteronomy 1:2 · Read the chapter -
The Israelite territory now extended all the way from Mount Halak, which leads up to Seir in the south, as far north as Baal-gad at the foot of Mount Hermon in the valley of Lebanon. Joshua killed all the kings of those territories,
Joshua 11:17 · Read the chapter -
“Lord, when you set out from Seir and marched across the fields of Edom, the earth trembled, and the cloudy skies poured down rain.
Judges 5:4 · Read the chapter -
Five hundred of these invaders from the tribe of Simeon went to Mount Seir, led by Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel—all sons of Ishi.
1 Chronicles 4:42 · Read the chapter
Every verse (34)
Places near Mount Seir
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