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The Mount of Olives or Mount Olivet (Hebrew: הַר הַזֵּיתִים Har HaZeitim) is a mountain east of Jerusalem, most notable as the site of the Olivet Discourse and the Ascension of Jesus. Mount Olive, Arkansas (disambiguation) Mount Olive, New Jersey; Mount Olivet Cemetery, many throughout the US
The Mount of Olives is one of three peaks of a mountain ridge which runs for 3.5 kilometres (2.2 miles) just east of the Old City across the Kidron Valley, in this area called the Valley of Josaphat. The peak to its north is Mount Scopus , at 826 metres (2,710 feet), while the peak to its south is the Mount of Corruption, at 747 m (2,451 ft).
Mari – Assyrian city; Mareshah; Media – Nation in Iran; Megiddo; Meluhha – Pre-Arab state in the Arabian Peninsula; Memphis; Mesopotamia – Includes the kingdoms of Sumer, Akkad, Assyria, Babylonia, Chaldea, and the neo Assyrian states of Adiabene, Osroene and Hatra. Midian; Moab – Cannanite state; Mount Carmel; Mount Ephraim; Mount ...
Detail of Palestine Park, showing the markers for Jerusalem, the Mt. of Olives, and the town of Bethany. Palestine Park is a scale model of the Holy Land , including cities, hills, rivers, and seas, in approximately correct geographical relation on the grounds of Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York .
Church of the Holy Sepulchre: Jerusalem is generally considered the cradle of Christianity. [1]The list of Christian holy places in the Holy Land outlines sites within cities located in the Holy Land that are regarded as having a special religious significance to Christians, usually by association with Jesus or other persons mentioned in the Bible.
In the Hebrew Bible, the term is used about two cities: Jerusalem, as in 2 Chronicles 27:3 and 33:14 and Nehemiah 3:26 and 11:21, and Samaria, mentioned in 2 Kings 5:24. The Mesha Stele , written in Moabite , a Canaanite language closely related to Biblical Hebrew , is the only extra-biblical source using the word, also in connection to a ...
The Tomb of the Prophets Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi (Arabic: قبور الأنبياء, romanized: Qubūr al-ʾAnbiyyāʾ} lit. ' Graves (of) the Prophets '; Hebrew: מערת הנביאים "Cave of the Prophets") is an ancient burial site located on the upper western slope of the Mount of Olives, Jerusalem.
Then the apostles returned to Jerusalem from the hill called the Mount of Olives, a Sabbath day's walk from the city. [ 21 ] "The hill called the Mount of Olives " (ESV: "the mount called Olivet"): This geographical site is mentioned by Luke alone in the narrative of Jesus' last entry into Jerusalem ( Luke 19:29 ) and as a place to rest during ...