Place
Horeb
The mountain of God — Sinai by its other name — where Moses saw the bush and where Elijah, forty days from Beersheba, heard not wind, earthquake, or fire, but a still small voice.
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Where it is
- Region
- Sinai Peninsula
- Kind of place
- Mountain
Horeb in Scripture
17 verses name it — all of them- Exodus 3:1Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to the mountain of God, unto Horeb.
- Exodus 17:6Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
- Exodus 33:6And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments from mount Horeb onward.
- Deuteronomy 1:2It is eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadesh-barnea.
- Deuteronomy 1:6Jehovah our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mountain:
- Deuteronomy 1:19And we journeyed from Horeb, and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which ye saw, by the way to the hill-country of the Amorites, as Jehovah our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.
- Deuteronomy 4:10the day that thou stoodest before Jehovah thy God in Horeb, when Jehovah said unto me, Assemble me the people, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.
- Deuteronomy 4:15Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of form on the day that Jehovah spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire;
- Deuteronomy 5:2Jehovah our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
- Deuteronomy 9:8Also in Horeb ye provoked Jehovah to wrath, and Jehovah was angry with you to destroy you.
- Deuteronomy 18:16according to all that thou desiredst of Jehovah thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of Jehovah my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.
- Deuteronomy 29:1These are the words of the covenant which Jehovah commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
- 1 Kings 8:9There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone which Moses put there at Horeb, when Jehovah made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
- 1 Kings 19:8And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.
- 2 Chronicles 5:10There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses put there at Horeb, when Jehovah made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.
- Psalms 106:19They made a calf in Horeb, And worshipped a molten image.
- Malachi 4:4Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, even statutes and ordinances.
Where this leads
from Horeb- Deuteronomynames it 9 times
- Exodusnames it 3 times
- 1 Kingsnames it 2 times
- 2 Chroniclesnames it 1 time
- Malachinames it 1 time
- Psalmsnames it 1 time
- Ahabnamed in this place's story
- Mosesnamed in this place's story
- Elijahnamed in this place's story
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