One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Seir Mount. Every Seir Mount in the Bible
place
Seir Mount
שֵׂעִיר
Mount Seir refers to the mountainous region within Seir, often associated with the Edomites (Deut. 1:2; 2:1, 5; 1Chr. 4:42; Ezek. 35:2, 3, 7, 15).
- verses
- 11
- first named
- Deuteronomy 1:2
- last named
- Ezekiel 35:15
- feature
- mountain range
- coordinates
- 30.18°N · 35.32°E
Jebel esh Shera (OpenBible)
Scholarship offers 2 identifications for this place. The leading one is shown; the others are recorded in the gazetteer.
Description
Seir Mount in the text
Mount Seir is a specific mountain or mountainous region within the larger area of Seir, which was inhabited by the Edomites. It is mentioned several times in the Bible, often in the context of the Israelites' interactions with the Edomites during their wilderness wanderings and later in their history.
Mount Seir is first mentioned in the book of Deuteronomy, where it is described as an eleven-day journey from Horeb (Sinai) by way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea (Deut. 1:2). The Israelites were instructed to turn away from Mount Seir and pass through the territory of their brothers, the descendants of Esau, without provoking them (Deut. 2:1, 5).
During the reign of King Jehoshaphat of Judah, the Moabites, Ammonites, and some of the Meunites came against Judah by way of Mount Seir (2Chr. 20:10, 22, 23). However, God caused these enemies to turn against each other, resulting in their defeat and the deliverance of Judah.
The prophet Ezekiel also delivered oracles against Mount Seir, declaring God's judgment against the Edomites for their hostility towards Israel (Ezek. 35:2, 3, 7, 15). This judgment would result in the desolation of Mount Seir and the recognition of God's sovereignty.
The specific location of Mount Seir within the region of Seir is not clearly defined in the Bible. However, its association with the Edomites and its strategic importance in military campaigns suggest that it was a prominent and well-fortified area within the mountainous region of Seir.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
The pattern
Where Seir 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.
11 verses across 4 of 66 books; 62 write the name nowhere. Named in Deuteronomy (3), 1 Chronicles (1), 2 Chronicles (3) and Ezekiel (4).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 11, across 4 books.
Deuteronomy3 verses
1 Chronicles1 verse
2 Chronicles3 verses
Ezekiel4 verses
Onward
Where this page goes
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.
Where they appear
What happened here
Atlas's reading of each chapter this place appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
- Deuteronomy 2Mount Seir was the hill country around which Israel wandered for many days before turning north.
- 2 Chronicles 20Mount Seir was attacked by Ammon and Moab, and its inhabitants were finished off before the attackers destroyed one another.
- Ezekiel 35Mount Seir is addressed as the object of judgment, its cities made ruins and its mountains filled with the slain.
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