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Places of the Bible

Horeb

What happened here

  • Wilderness Wanderings · 1490 BC

Where the name appears

Events told in passages that name Horeb, and how many of their verses do. That is not the same as saying they happened here: a place can be named as a landmark, as somewhere being travelled to, or as the subject of a prophecy.

A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length. The fainter the mark, the fewer verses name the place.

  • Reign of Solomon · 1014 BC · 1 verse
  • Prophecies of Elijah · 909 BC · 1 verse
  • Prophecies of Malachi · 441 BC · 1 verse

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

Desert or mountain of the dried-up ground, a general name for the whole mountain range of which Sinai was one of the summits (Ex. 3:1; 17:6; 33:6; Ps. 106:19, etc.). The modern name of the whole range is Jebel Musa. It is a huge mountain block, about 2 miles long by about 1 in breadth, with a very spacious plain at its north-east end, called the Er Rahah, in which the Israelites encamped for nearly a whole year.

From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.

Named in 16 verses

Exodus
3:1, 17:6
Deuteronomy
1:2, 1:6, 1:19, 4:10, 4:15, 5:2, 9:8, 18:16, 29:1
1 Kings
8:9, 19:8
2 Chronicles
5:10
Psalms
106:19
Malachi
4:4

The place, its people and its events come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.