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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 ...
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 ...
Mount of Transfiguration: The location of the mountain for the transfiguration of Jesus is debated among scholars, and locations such as Mount Tabor have been suggested. [24] Nain: The pericope of young man from Nain appears in Luke 7:11–17. [25] This is the first of three instances in the Gospels in which Jesus raises the dead.
Eusebius (Onom 58:13) located it on the Mount of Olives. [4] It was likely on the road from Jerusalem to Jericho and the limit of a Sabbath-day's journey from Jerusalem, [7] i.e., 2,000 cubits. The Franciscan Church of Bethphage was built on the foundations of a 12th-century crusader chapel. [8]
The cemetery was quite close to the Old City, its chief merit being that it lay just across the Kidron Valley from the Temple Mount: according to a midrash, [5] it is here that the Resurrection of the Dead would begin. [4] The Messiah will appear on the Mount of Olives, and head toward the Temple Mount. As the sages say: "In the days to come ...
Gethsemane (/ ɡ ɛ θ ˈ s ɛ m ə n i / gheth-SEM-ə-nee) [a] is a garden at the foot of the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem, where, according to the four Gospels of the New Testament, Jesus Christ underwent the Agony in the Garden and was arrested before his crucifixion. It is a place of great resonance in Christianity. There are several ...