Mount Gerizim
Where Mount Gerizim sits on the map, and the 5 verses where it appears, in biblical order and linked to the full chapter.
- Coordinates
- 32.1994, 35.2728
- Mentions
- 5 mentions
Coordinates and the modern identification come from the open atlas at OpenBible.info. For regions, peoples and large features there is no identification: the marked point only places the area on the map, and stands for neither a particular site nor its boundaries.
Can you visit it today?
The summit holds the excavated Samaritan sacred precinct of the Hellenistic period and, built over it, an octagonal Byzantine church with its own wall. On the slope lives the Samaritan community of Kiryat Luza, which still keeps Passover there with the sacrifice of lambs.
- Where it is
- In the West Bank, rising 880 m above Nablus; Mount Ebal stands facing it across the valley.
What to read there
The passage that gives this site its meaning, to read while you are here.
Joshua 8, 30-35Open in the readerPassages where it appears
5 verses, in biblical order.
Deuteronomy
- Deuteronomy 11:29
Yet truly, when the Lord your God will have led you into the land, to which you are traveling for a habitation, you shall place the blessing upon Mount Gerizim, the curse upon Mount Ebal,
- Deuteronomy 27:12
“These shall stand upon Mount Gerizim, as a blessing to the people, when you will have crossed the Jordan: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.
Joshua
- Joshua 8:33
Then all the people, and those greater by birth, and the commanders and judges were standing on both sides of the ark, in the sight of the priests who were carrying the ark of the covenant of the Lord, with both the new arrival and the native born, one half part of them beside Mount Gerizim, and one half beside Mount Ebal, just as Moses, the servant of the Lord, had instructed. And first, certainly, he blessed the people of Israel.
Judges
- Judges 9:7
When this had been reported to Jotham, he went and stood at the top of Mount Gerizim. And lifting up his voice, he cried out and said: “Listen to me, men of Shechem, so that God may listen to you.
John
- John 4:20
Our fathers worshipped on this mountain, but you say that Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship.”