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Mount Seir (Hebrew: הַר-שֵׂעִיר, romanized: Har Sēʿīr) is the ancient and biblical name for a mountainous region stretching between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba in the northwestern region of Edom and southeast of the Kingdom of Judah.
Mt Hor, seen from cliffs near Petra, from The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia Mt Hor. The ancestry of Seir the Horite is not specified. Some say Seir lived around the time of Terah, father of Abraham.
Galambush suggests that "the choice of Mount Seir as the counterpart to the mountains of Israel is puzzling", noting that Ezekiel's oracle against Edom in Ezekiel 25:12–14 is "a brief, virtually pro forma condemnation of Israel's neighbour for taking advantage of Israel's broken condition. The motivation for locating a second, more vehement ...
It also states that the inhabitants of Mount Seir invaded Judea in conjunction with Ammon and Moab, and that the invaders turned against one another and were all destroyed (2 Chronicles 20:10–23). Edom revolted against Jehoram and elected a king of its own (2 Kings 8:20–22; 2 Chronicles 21:8).
Mount Seir, a mountainous region stretching between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba; Seir the Horite, chief of the Horites, a people mentioned in the Torah; Sa'ir, also Seir, a Palestinian town in the Hebron Governorate in the West Bank; Seir, a demon in the Ars Goetia; Southeast Indian Ridge (SEIR), is a mid-ocean ridge in the southern ...
It is 11 days' march by way of Mount Seir from Horeb (Deuteronomy 1:2). By the late nineteenth century, as many as eighteen sites had been proposed for biblical Kadesh. [ 8 ] One source of confusion has been the fact that Kadesh is sometimes mentioned in connection with the Desert of Paran ( Numbers 13:26 ) and at other times with the Zin ...
A National Geographic documentary team has found on Mount Everest what they believe is the partial remains of a British climber who vanished 100 years ago during a quest to become among the first ...
The wilderness of Paran is often associated with Mount Sinai in Egypt, and there is some evidence that it may originally have referred to the southern portion of the Sinai Peninsula. [ 14 ] in 1989, Professor Haseeb Shehada , in his translation of the Samaritan Torah , suggested an identification of the wilderness of Paran with the desert of ...