Mount Hermon
Mountain · Hermon → Golan / Lebanon border
The high snow-capped peak in the north. Its dew became a picture of blessing.
People
- Moses
- Joshua
- Og
- David
At a glance
- Range
- Anti-Lebanon, snow-capped
- Role
- Northern boundary of the conquered land
- Peoples
- Amorites of Bashan; Sidonians called it Sirion
- First mention
- Deuteronomy 3 (Sirion, Senir)
The story
Mount Hermon rises snow-capped at the northern edge of the land, and its melting snows feed the springs that become the Jordan. The Sidonians called it Sirion and the Amorites called it Senir, and it marked the far boundary that Moses and Joshua reached in the conquest of Bashan.
Because its white crown can be seen from far off and its heavy dew waters the slopes below, the psalmists made Hermon a picture of blessing and of God’s strength. They sang of the dew of Hermon descending upon the mountains of Zion, and of Tabor and Hermon rejoicing together in the name of the LORD.