Mount Seir, Jordan Is Mount Sinai?
So close to the Promised Land!
The True Mount Sinai?
Mount Seir as Mount Sinai
Exodus 18:16 , “[16] On the morning of the third day there was thunder and lightning, with a thick cloud over the mountain, and a very loud trumpet blast. Everyone in the camp trembled. [17] Then Moses led the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain. [18] Mount Sinai was covered with smoke, because the LORD descended on it in fire. The smoke billowed up from it like smoke from a furnace, and the whole mountain trembled violently. [19] As the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke and the voice of God answered him. [20] The Lord descended to the top of Mount Sinai and called Moses to the top of the mountain. So Moses went up…”
Baker Greene, in the late 1800s, argued that Mount Sinai was the same as nearby Mount Horeb - a peak of Mount Seir. Greene also argued that Mount Sinai is the “Mountain of Light” (Jabal al-Nur) at the northern end of the Gulf of Aqaba.
Split rock of Horeb
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