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Mount Hermon

Northern border of Israel (Anti-Lebanon range) · Old Testament · 19 verses

Mount Hermon is the highest mountain in the region, a snow-capped peak at the southern end of the Anti-Lebanon range on the northern border of Israel. Its slopes feed the sources of the Jordan. The name appears in Deuteronomy, Joshua, 1 Chronicles and 8 more in the King James text.

About Mount Hermon

Mount Hermon is the highest mountain in the region, a snow-capped peak at the southern end of the Anti-Lebanon range on the northern border of Israel. Its slopes feed the sources of the Jordan.

Its place in the story

Hermon marked the northern extent of Israel's conquest under Moses and Joshua. It was called Sirion by the Sidonians and Senir by the Amorites. The psalms celebrate its dew and its heights.

Mount Hermon in Scripture (KJV)

“And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites the land that was on this side Jordan, from the river of Arnon unto mount Hermon;”
Deuteronomy 3:8 (KJV)
“(Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites call it Shenir;)”
Deuteronomy 3:9 (KJV)
“From Aroer, which is by the bank of the river Arnon, even unto mount Sion, which is Hermon,”
Deuteronomy 4:48 (KJV)
“Even from the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir, even unto Baalgad in the valley of Lebanon under mount Hermon: and all their kings he took, and smote them, and slew them.”
Joshua 11:17 (KJV)
“Now these are the kings of the land, which the children of Israel smote, and possessed their land on the other side Jordan toward the rising of the sun, from the river Arnon unto mount Hermon, and all the plain on the east:”
Joshua 12:1 (KJV)
“And reigned in mount Hermon, and in Salcah, and in all Bashan, unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.”
Joshua 12:5 (KJV)
“And the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrising, from Baalgad under mount Hermon unto the entering into Hamath.”
Joshua 13:5 (KJV)
“And Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan unto Salcah;”
Joshua 13:11 (KJV)

Mount Hermon is named 19 times in Scripture; 8 shown above.

Where it leads

The snows of Hermon feed the Jordan where Jesus was baptized, and its heights lay in the northern region where He later ministered.

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Where is Mount Hermon in the Bible?

Mount Hermon is the highest mountain in the region, a snow-capped peak at the southern end of the Anti-Lebanon range on the northern border of Israel. Its slopes feed the sources of the Jordan. The name appears in Deuteronomy, Joshua, 1 Chronicles and 8 more in the King James text.

What happened at Mount Hermon?

Hermon marked the northern extent of Israel's conquest under Moses and Joshua. It was called Sirion by the Sidonians and Senir by the Amorites. The psalms celebrate its dew and its heights.

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