Mount Horeb

Where it is

14 locations have been proposed, 377 km apart at the extremes. This atlas draws the first; the others are recorded here because the disagreement is real and is not ours to settle.

1. Jebel Musa28.5397, 33.9733
2. Har Karkom30.2833, 34.7500
3. Jebel Sin Bishar29.6710, 32.9610
4. Ras es Safsafeh28.5556, 33.9672
5. Jebel Serbal28.6464, 33.6517
6. Jebel Katherina28.5108, 33.9553
7. Jebel Hashem el Tarif29.6692, 34.6334
8. Jebel Halal30.6531, 34.0289
9. Jabal al Magharah30.7022, 33.3767
10. Jebel Yeleq30.3511, 33.5231
11. Har ‘Arif30.4265, 34.7334
12. Jabal al Lawz28.6542, 35.3058
13. Al Manifa28.3405, 35.2925
14. Jabal Harb27.9607, 35.6572

Where Scripture names it

17 verses in 6 books.

Where this atlas draws it

7 pins across 7 chapters — this atlas’s own editorial choice, not a claim about the text.

• Horebmatched by the verses it appears in
• Mount Horebmatched decided — 1 Kings 19:8-9 — "he walked forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God. There Elijah entered a cave and spent the night."