Mount Horeb

Mount Horeb is a mountain named in 17 verses of the Bible. It is most likely another name for Mount Sinai (high confidence).

Location

Where scholars place it, most confident first. Confidence is OpenBible.info's score from the sources it surveys; it is not this site's judgment.

Verses

Exodus

• Exodus 3:1
  Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
• Exodus 17:6
  Behold, 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.Behold, I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. And when you strike the rock, water will come out of it for the people to drink.” So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel.
• Exodus 33:6
  And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments by the mount Horeb.So the Israelites stripped themselves of their jewelry from Mount Horeb onward.

Deuteronomy

• Deuteronomy 1:2
  (There are eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadesh–barnea.)It is an eleven-day journey from Horeb to Kadesh-barnea by way of Mount Seir.
• Deuteronomy 1:6
  The Lord our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount:The LORD our God said to us at Horeb: “You have stayed at this mountain long enough.
• Deuteronomy 1:19
  And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the Lord our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh–barnea.And just as the LORD our God had commanded us, we set out from Horeb and went toward the hill country of the Amorites, through all the vast and terrifying wilderness you have seen. When we reached Kadesh-barnea,
• Deuteronomy 4:10
  Specially the day that thou stoodest before the Lord thy God in Horeb, when the Lord said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.The day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, the LORD said to me, “Gather the people before Me to hear My words, so that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach them to their children.”
• Deuteronomy 4:15
  Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:So since you saw no form of any kind on the day the LORD spoke to you out of the fire at Horeb, be careful
• Deuteronomy 5:2
  The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.
• Deuteronomy 9:8
  Also in Horeb ye provoked the Lord to wrath, so that the Lord was angry with you to have destroyed you.At Horeb you provoked the LORD, and He was angry enough to destroy you.
• Deuteronomy 18:16
  According to all that thou desiredst of the Lord thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.This is what you asked of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, “Let us not hear the voice of the LORD our God or see this great fire anymore, so that we will not die!”
• Deuteronomy 29:1
  These are the words of the covenant, which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.These are the words of the covenant that the LORD commanded Moses to make with the Israelites in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant He had made with them at Horeb.

1 Kings

• 1 Kings 8:9
  There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the Lord made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the LORD had made a covenant with the Israelites after they had come out of the land of Egypt.
• 1 Kings 19:8
  And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.So he got up and ate and drank. And strengthened by that food, he walked forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.

2 Chronicles

• 2 Chronicles 5:10
  There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses put therein at Horeb, when the Lord made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the LORD had made a covenant with the Israelites after they had come out of Egypt.

Psalms

• Psalm 106:19
  They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped a molten image.

Malachi

• Malachi 4:4
  Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.“Remember the law of My servant Moses, the statutes and ordinances I commanded him for all Israel at Horeb.

Notes

1. Locations from the OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, CC BY 4.0. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
2. Verses are those where at least one of ten English translations names this place, per OpenBible.info.