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MOUNT HOR (nirt)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 687 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MOUNT
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HOR (nirt)  , the
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scene in the
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Bible of
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Aaron's
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death, situated " in the edge of the
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land of
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Edom " (Num. xxxiii . 37) . Since the
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time of
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Josephus it has been identified with the
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Jebel Nebi Ijarun ("
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Mountain of the
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Prophet Aaron "), a twin-peaked mountain 4780 ft. above the
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sea-level (6072 ft. above the Dead Sea) in the Edomite Mountains on the
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east
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side of the
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Jordan-Arabah valley . On the
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summit is a
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shrine said to
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cover the
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grave of Aaron . Some
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modern investigators dissent from this
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identification: H .
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Clay
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Trumbull prefers the Jebel Madara, a
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peak
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north-
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west of `
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Ain Kadis . Another
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Mount
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Hor is mentioned in Num. xxxiv . 7, 8, as on the
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northern boundary of the prospective conquests of the Israelites . It is perhaps to be identified with
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Hermon . It has been doubtfully suggested that for Floc we should here read Hadrach, the name of a northern
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country near
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Damascus, mentioned only once in the Bible (Zech. ix . I) . (R .

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