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Horeb

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Horeb (hō`rĕb), in the Bible, mountain, another name for Mt. Sinai. It is mentioned in Psalm 106 as the place of the making of the golden calf. Elijah fled to Horeb.
Horeb
Bible a mountain, probably Mount Sinai


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It was Mount Horeb, that Sinai at the top of which Moses saw God face to face.
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Verne, Jules View in context
It was not needed: two other boys besides Arthur had already followed his example, and he went down to the great School with a glimmering of another lesson in his heart--the lesson that he who has conquered his own coward spirit has conquered the whole outward world; and that other one which the old prophet learnt in the cave in Mount Horeb, when he hid his face, and the still, small voice asked, "What doest thou here, Elijah?
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