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Moreh

Central hill country and Jezreel valley · Old Testament · 3 verses

Moreh named a place of great trees near Shechem and, separately, a hill near the Jezreel valley. Both bear the name Moreh in Scripture. The name appears in Genesis, Deuteronomy, Judges in the King James text.

About Moreh

Moreh named a place of great trees near Shechem and, separately, a hill near the Jezreel valley. Both bear the name Moreh in Scripture.

Its place in the story

At the oak of Moreh near Shechem the LORD appeared to Abram and promised the land to his offspring, and Abram built an altar there. The hill of Moreh appears in the account of Gideon's battle with Midian.

Moreh in Scripture (KJV)

“And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.”

Genesis 12:6 (KJV)

“Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?”

Deuteronomy 11:30 (KJV)

“Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.”

Judges 7:1 (KJV)

Where it leads

The promise of the land given to Abram at Moreh is part of the covenant that Scripture says leads to Christ.

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