Numbers 20:22

JOURNEY TO MOUNT HOR DEATH OF AARON, Numbers 20:22-29.

22. Mount Hor Hor, the mountain This is remarkable as the only case in which the name comes first. Hor is an old form of har, mountain. So that the meaning of the name is, “the mountain of mountains.” Vulgate, mons altissimus, a very high mountain. It is on the western side of Mount Seir, and is the highest and most conspicuous of this whole sandstone range, being 4,800 feet above the Mediterranean, and 1,700 above Petra, close beneath its eastern side. To an observer on the highlands west of the Arabah, or great valley west of Edom, Mount Hor seems to stand alone among the cliffs of Seir, in the form of an irregularly truncated cone, having three ragged points or peaks. On the highest peak,

that on the north-east, is the traditional tomb of Aaron. “This,” says Stanley, “is one of the very few spots connected with the wanderings of the Israelites which admit of no doubt.”