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Moses with Tablets of the Ten Commandments, painting by Rembrandt, 1659. Mount Horeb (/ ˈ h ɔːr ɛ b /; Hebrew: הַר חֹרֵב Har Ḥōrēḇ; Greek in the Septuagint: Χωρήβ, Chōrēb; Latin in the Vulgate: Horeb) is the mountain at which the Ten Commandments were given to Moses by God, according to the Book of Deuteronomy in the Hebrew Bible.
Mount Horeb is a village in Dane County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 7,754 at the time of the 2020 census. It is part of the Madison metropolitan area.
The Mount Horeb Earthworks Complex is an Adena culture group of earthworks in Lexington, Kentucky. It consists of two major components, the Mount Horeb Site 1 and the Peter Village enclosure, and several smaller features including the Grimes Village site, Tarleton Mound, and Fisher Mound. [ 1 ]
Horeb may refer to: Mount Horeb, possibly another name for the Biblical Mount Sinai; Mount Horeb, Wisconsin, in Dane County, Wisconsin; Mount Horeb Sasthamcotta, ashram in Kerala, India; Horeb, Carmarthenshire, Wales; Horeb, Ohio, United States; Horeb Chapel, Llwydcoed, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales; A work of Jewish philosophy by Rabbi Samson ...
Mount Hor (Hebrew: הֹר הָהָר , Hōr hāHār) is the name given in the Hebrew Bible to two distinct mountains. One borders the land of Edom in the area south of the Dead Sea , and the other is by the Mediterranean Sea at the Northern border of Israel .
However, in the 4th century, under the Byzantine Empire, the monastery built there was abandoned in favour of the newer belief that Mount Saint Catherine was the Biblical Mount Sinai; a new monastery – Saint Catherine's Monastery – was built at its foot, and the alleged site of the biblical burning bush was identified.
Later in the Book of Kings, Elijah, who had fled fearing Queen Jezebel's wrath, is ordered by God at Mount Horeb to go back along the Jordan valley and "anoint Elisha son of Shaphat from Abel-meholah" to succeed him as prophet (1 Kings 19:16).
The passages themselves refer to a mountain in Midian where Moses tended the flocks of Jethro a priest of Midian. They refer to Alush where Moses struck the rock of Mt Horeb and produced water. They refer to the top of Mt Horeb where Moses directed the battle with the Amalek. They refer to the place where Moses was reunited with Jethro.