Mount Ebal, a mountain peak 940 meters above sea level just north of the West Bank city of Nablus. It is mentioned in the Bible Panorama of Nablus Mt. ...
Ebal is a huge mountain—about six and a half square miles (18 square kilometers)—in the southern part of Manasseh.
Ebal, known from Deuteronomy, chapters 27 and 28, as the mountain where the curses were pronounced, is separated on the south from Mt. Gerizim, the mountain of the blessings, by the deep narrow valley of Shechem.
The building of an altar on Mt. Ebal is described in two places in the Bible, once in Deuteronomy, when the Israelites are commanded to build the altar after they pass into the Promised Land, and again in the book of Joshua, when the altar is actually built.
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