When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are to possess, you must pronounce the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.

“The following tribes must stand to bless the people on Mount Gerizim when you cross the Jordan: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.

When Jotham heard the news, he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim. He spoke loudly to the people below, “Listen to me, leaders of Shechem, so that God may listen to you!

All the people, rulers, leaders, and judges were standing on either side of the ark, in front of the Levitical priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord. Both resident foreigners and native Israelites were there. Half the people stood in front of Mount Gerizim and the other half in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the Lord’s servant had previously instructed to them to do for the formal blessing ceremony.

The Lord spoke to Moses at Mount Sinai:

They traveled from Kehelathah and camped at Mount Shepher.

They traveled from Mount Shepher and camped in Haradah.

They traveled from Mount Hor and camped in Zalmonah.

But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

So the Israelites stripped off their ornaments by Mount Horeb.

Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up on Mount Hor.

Now Aaron was 123 years old when he died in Mount Hor.

Then Joshua built an altar for the Lord God of Israel on Mount Ebal,

From there he traveled to Mount Carmel and then back to Samaria.

from Mount Halak on up to Seir, as far as Baal Gad in the Lebanon Valley below Mount Hermon. He captured all their kings and executed them.

He chose the tribe of Judah, and Mount Zion, which he loves.

“Son of man, turn toward Mount Seir, and prophesy against it.

After singing a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

After singing a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

For wild animals are prowling over Mount Zion, which lies desolate.