Olives, Mount of

The ridge east of Jerusalem across the Kidron, where David went up weeping, where the glory departed in Ezekiel’s vision, where Jesus taught, wept over the city and was taken…

On the border of Edom, where Aaron was gathered to his people and the priesthood passed to Eleazar in the sight of the congregation.

The long ridge above the sea where Elijah rebuilt the altar of the LORD, called down fire before the prophets of Baal, and prayed until a cloud the size of a man’s hand rose…

The mountain of blessing that faces Ebal across Shechem, where Jotham told his parable and where the Samaritans built the temple the woman at the well spoke of.

The snow-capped peak at the north of the land, the mountain whose dew Psalm 133 praises, the border of Israel in Joshua, and the mountain 1 Enoch names as the place where the…