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Place · Mountain

Mount Seir

Also known as Seir

Named in 10 verses across 4 books, first in Deuteronomy 1:2.

Where

Coordinates

30.7347° N, 35.6063° E

One proposed location, not an established one.

Identification

Uncertain

The exact spot is unknown; the point is placed by a related feature nearby.

The dataset’s editors marked this place as not identifiable with a known site.

Some biblical sites are known for certain; others are identified from old names and descriptions and are still discussed.

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Other records for this place

Born, died or recorded here, or in an event set here, first; then people named in the same verses, which does not mean they were here.

All 10 verses, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

Deuteronomy 1:2
It is an eleven-day journey from Horeb to Kadesh-barnea by way of Mount Seir.
Deuteronomy 2:1
Then we turned back and headed for the wilderness by way of the Red Sea, as the LORD had instructed me, and for many days we wandered around Mount Seir.
Deuteronomy 2:5
Do not provoke them, for I will not give you any of their land, not even a footprint, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as his possession.

1 Chronicles 4:42
And five hundred of these Simeonites led by Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi, went to Mount Seir

2 Chronicles 20:10
And now, here are the men of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, whom You did not let Israel invade when they came out of the land of Egypt; but Israel turned away from them and did not destroy them.
2 Chronicles 20:22
The moment they began their shouts and praises, the LORD set ambushes against the men of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir who had come against Judah, and they were defeated.

Ezekiel 35:2
“Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir and prophesy against it,
Ezekiel 35:3
and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, O Mount Seir. I will stretch out My hand against you and make you a desolate waste.
Ezekiel 35:7
I will make Mount Seir a desolate waste and will cut off from it those who come and go.
Ezekiel 35:15
As you rejoiced when the inheritance of the house of Israel became desolate, so will I do to you. You will become a desolation, O Mount Seir, and so will all of Edom. Then they will know that I am the LORD.