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NASB | Genesis 8:4 In the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat. |
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Genesis 8:4 On the seventeenth day of the seventh month [five months after the rain began], the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat [in Turkey]. |
Subject: Major Mountains of the Bible |
Bible Note: Major Mountains of the Bible ******************************************* * Mt. Ararat (in modern Turkey), where Noah's ark came to rest (Gen. 8:4). * Mt. Carmel, where Elijah was victorious over the prophets of Baal (1 Kings 18:9-42). * Mt. Ebal (opposite Mt. Gerizim), where Moses commanded that an altar be built after the Hebrews entered the Promised Land (Deut. 27:4). * Mt. Gerizim, where Jesus talked with the Samaritan woman at the well (John 4:20). * Mt. Gilboa, where King Saul and his sons were killed in a battle with the Philistines (1 Chr. 10:1,8). * Mt. Hermon, a mountain range that marked the northern limit of the conquest of Canaan (Josh. 11:3,17). * Mt. Lebanon, the source of cedar wood for Solomon's temple in Jerusalem (1 Kings 5:14,18). * Mt. Moriah, where Abraham brought Isaac for sacrifice (Gen. 22:2) and the location of Solomon's temple (2 Chr. 3:1). * Mt. Olivet, or Mt. of Olives, where Jesus gave the discourse on His Second Coming (Matt. 24:3). * Mt. Pisgah, or Nebo, where Moses viewed the Promised Land (Deut. 34:1). * Mt. Seir, south of the Dead Sea, the location to which Esau moved after Isaac's death (Gen. 36:8). * Mt. Sinai, or Horeb (near Egypt), where the law was given to Moses (Ex. 19:2-25). * Mt. Tabor, 6 miles east of Nazareth, served as a boundary between Issachar and Zebulun; also Barak launched his attack on Sisera from Tabor (Judg. 4:6-15). * Mt. Zion, originally limited to the SW sector (2 Sam. 5:7), was later used of all Jerusalem (Lam. 1:4). [Taken from page 27 of the MacArthur Study Bible (NKJV), 1997, Word Publishing, John MacArthur, Author and General Editor, http://www.gty.org] - Makarios |
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