Biblical places
Mount Gerizim
The mountain south of Shechem where Joshua had Israel pronounce the blessings of the covenant (Deuteronomy 27, Joshua 8:33); still a sacred site for the Samaritan community today, facing Mount Ebal.
Sources and location confidence
- Location confidence
- Very High
- Jabal at-Tur
- 32.2009, 35.2732
A mountain south of Shechem (present-day Nablus), with no disagreement over its location; it is still used as an actual holy site by the Samaritans today.
Related Bible passages
These are selected indexed references, not an exhaustive list of every mention in the Bible.
Deuteronomy 11:29
And it shall come to pass, when the LORD thy God hath brought thee in unto the land whither thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal.
Joshua 8:33
And all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their judges, stood on this side the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, as well the stranger, as he that was born among them; half of them over against mount Gerizim, and half of them over against mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel.
Judges 9:7
And when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood in the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said unto them, Hearken unto me, ye men of Shechem, that God may hearken unto you.
Deuteronomy 27:12
These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when ye are come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin: