Mount Ebal
Mount Ebal About half way between Nablous and Jacob’s Well, Mount Ebal and Mount Gerizim so come together as to form a natural amphitheater. Here it is supposed the children of Israel were gathered when a copy of the law of Moses was written upon the twelve stones in the presence of Israel. “Then Joshua built an altar to the Lord God of Israel in Mount Ebal. * * * * And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel. 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 bear 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. And afterwards he read all the words of the law, the blessings and t...
