A mountain on the Edomite border where Aaron died (Numbers 33:38–39).
About Mount Hor (of Edom)
1. Mountain located at the border of the land of Edom (Nm 20:23; 33:37). Mt Hor was the first place to which the Israelites came (Nm 20:22) after wandering nearly 40 years (Dt 2:14). Moses’ brother, Aaron, would not be permitted to enter Canaan because he had refused to carry out the Lord’s instructions at Meribah (Nm 20:7–13, 24). Stripped of his priestly garments, which were then put on his son Eleazar, Aaron died on the top of Mt Hor (Nm 20:25–29) at the age of 123. A similar punishment was later meted out to Moses, whose death on Mt Nebo is compared to Aaron’s death on Mt Hor (Dt 32:49–51). According to Deuteronomy 10:6, Aaron died and was buried at Moserah (probably the Moseroth of Nm 33:30–31), a place that must have been very close to (or perhaps a part of) Mt Hor.
Key References
After they had set out from Kadesh, the whole congregation of Israel came to Mount Hor.
They set out from Kadesh and camped at Mount Hor, on the outskirts of the land of Edom.
All Scripture References (10)
Numbers (9)
After they had set out from Kadesh, the whole congregation of Israel came to Mount Hor.
And at Mount Hor, near the border of the land of Edom, the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
Take Aaron and his son Eleazar and bring them up Mount Hor.
So Moses did as the LORD had commanded, and they climbed Mount Hor in the sight of the whole congregation.
Then they set out from Mount Hor along the route to the Red Sea, in order to bypass the land of Edom. But the people grew impatient on the journey
They set out from Kadesh and camped at Mount Hor, on the outskirts of the land of Edom.
At the LORD’s command, Aaron the priest climbed Mount Hor and died there on the first day of the fifth month, in the fortieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt.
Aaron was 123 years old when he died on Mount Hor.
And the Israelites set out from Mount Hor and camped at Zalmonah.
Deuteronomy (1)
And there on the mountain that you climb, you will die and be gathered to your people, just as your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people.