A mountain located on the Sinai Peninsula; another name for Mount Sinai.
About Mount Horeb
The mountain where God met Moses and gave him the Ten Commandments and the rest of the law. The name "Sinai" refers to:
the mountain itself,
Key References
Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
It is an eleven-day journey from Horeb to Kadesh-barnea by way of Mount Seir.
The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.
All Scripture References (17)
Exodus (3)
Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
Behold, I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. And when you strike the rock, water will come out of it for the people to drink.” So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel.
So the Israelites stripped themselves of their jewelry from Mount Horeb onward.
Deuteronomy (9)
It is an eleven-day journey from Horeb to Kadesh-barnea by way of Mount Seir.
The LORD our God said to us at Horeb: “You have stayed at this mountain long enough.
And just as the LORD our God had commanded us, we set out from Horeb and went toward the hill country of the Amorites, through all the vast and terrifying wilderness you have seen. When we reached Kadesh-barnea,
The day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, the LORD said to me, “Gather the people before Me to hear My words, so that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach them to their children.”
So since you saw no form of any kind on the day the LORD spoke to you out of the fire at Horeb, be careful
The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.
At Horeb you provoked the LORD, and He was angry enough to destroy you.
This is what you asked of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, “Let us not hear the voice of the LORD our God or see this great fire anymore, so that we will not die!”
1 Kings (2)
There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the LORD had made a covenant with the Israelites after they had come out of the land of Egypt.
So he got up and ate and drank. And strengthened by that food, he walked forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.
2 Chronicles (1)
There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the LORD had made a covenant with the Israelites after they had come out of Egypt.
Psalms (1)
At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped a molten image.