This mountain, in its general acceptation, is probably the same
with Mount Seir, Hor being the name by which that mountainous tract was
denominated before it was exchanged for Seir. But one particular
mountain of this region retained the name of Hor long after; as it was a
mountain of this name, “by the coast of the land of Edom,” that Aaron
was commanded to ascend, in order to die there, Num. xx, 23. This
mountain, or at least the one to which tradition assigns the tomb of
Aaron, was visited by Burckhardt; from whose account it appears to form
a conspicuous object in the chain of the Djebel Shera, or Mount Seir,
rising abruptly from the valley of El Araba, or desert of Zin, about
fifty miles north of Akaba, or Ezion-Geber.
with Mount Seir, Hor being the name by which that mountainous tract was
denominated before it was exchanged for Seir. But one particular
mountain of this region retained the name of Hor long after; as it was a
mountain of this name, “by the coast of the land of Edom,” that Aaron
was commanded to ascend, in order to die there, Num. xx, 23. This
mountain, or at least the one to which tradition assigns the tomb of
Aaron, was visited by Burckhardt; from whose account it appears to form
a conspicuous object in the chain of the Djebel Shera, or Mount Seir,
rising abruptly from the valley of El Araba, or desert of Zin, about
fifty miles north of Akaba, or Ezion-Geber.