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    Gerizim Mount

    גְּרִזִים

    Mount Gerizim, a mountain in Samaria, was designated as the site for pronouncing blessings and was the location of Jotham's parable to the men of Shechem.

    Where the story of Gerizim Mount happens Where the gazetteer locates Gerizim Mount, framed to them: Gerizim_Mount. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.Gerizim_Mount
    Where the gazetteer locates Gerizim Mount
    verses
    4
    first named
    Deuteronomy 11:29
    last named
    Judges 9:7
    feature
    mountain
    coordinates
    32.20°N · 35.27°E
    mountain32.20°N · 35.27°E

    Mount Gerizim (OpenBible)

    The gazetteer records one identification, and no competing one.

    Description

    Gerizim Mount in the text

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Mount Gerizim is a mountain located in Samaria, near the ancient city of Shechem. It is mentioned in the Bible as a place of significant events and religious importance.

    In Deu.11.29 and 27:12, Moses instructed the Israelites that when they crossed the Jordan River and entered the Promised Land, they were to pronounce blessings from Mount Gerizim and curses from Mount Ebal. This event took place under Joshua's leadership, as recorded in Joshua 8:33, where half of the tribes stood in front of Mount Gerizim and the other half in front of Mount Ebal, as the blessings and curses were read aloud.

    Mount Gerizim is also associated with the parable of Jotham, son of Gideon, as recorded in Judges 9:7. After his brother Abimelech killed their seventy brothers and was made king by the men of Shechem, Jotham stood on top of Mount Gerizim and told a parable about the trees anointing a king over themselves. The parable was a warning against Abimelech's treachery and the folly of the men of Shechem in supporting him.

    In later history, Mount Gerizim became a sacred site for the Samaritans, who built a temple there in the 5th century BC. They believed that Mount Gerizim, rather than Jerusalem, was the chosen place for worship. This led to tensions between the Samaritans and the Jews, as evident in the conversation between Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well (Jhn.4.20-21).

    Today, Mount Gerizim, along with Mount Ebal, continues to be an important religious and archaeological site, with ruins of the Samaritan temple and other ancient structures still visible.

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    Direct connections

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    The pattern

    Where Gerizim Mount is named

    Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.

    Where the name is written across the corpus. 4 verses across 3 of 66 books; 63 write the name nowhere. OLD TESTAMENT · 39 BOOKSNEW TESTAMENT · 27 BOOKSDEUTERONOMY–JUDGES4 VERSES59 books and 957 chapters with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT Where the name is written across the corpus. 4 verses across 3 of 66 books; 63 write the name nowhere. OT · 39 BOOKSNT · 27 BOOKSDEUTERONOMY–JUDGES4 VERSES59 books with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT
    Gerizim Mount is named in 4 verses — occurrences of the name in the Hebrew or Greek, counted in the versification of the Berean Standard Bible (v5.7). Every book of the corpus is drawn, its width its share of the 1,189 chapters. 63 of the 66 books never write it. A verse that tells of this subject without writing the name is not counted here.

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    Where to read it

    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 4, across 3 books.

    1. Deuteronomy2 verses

      11:2927:12

    2. Joshua1 verse

      8:33

    3. Judges1 verse

      9:7

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    Nothing in the graph stands one hop from this entity yet. These are the best-connected entities of the same type, so the page still ends somewhere. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.

    ElsewhereTerritory of JudahOne of the most connected entities of this type.ElsewhereJerusalemThe capital of Israel, a holy city for three religionsElsewhereBashanRegion east of the Jordan, known for its fertility.

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