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Mountains

The elevated parts of the earth - Ge 7:19,20

GOD

• Formed
- Am 4:13
• Set fast
- Ps 65:6
• Gives strength to
- Ps 95:4
• Weighs, in a balance
- Isa 40:12
• Waters, from his chambers
- Ps 104:13
• Parches, with draught
- Hag 1:11
• Causes, to smoke
- Ps 104:32; 144:5
• Sets the foundations of, on fire
- De 32:22
• Makes waste
- Isa 42:15
• Causes, to tremble
- Na 1:5; Hab 3:10
• Causes, to skip
- Ps 114:4,6
• Causes, to melt
- Jud 5:5; Ps 97:5; Isa 64:1,3
• Removes
- Job 9:5
• Overturns
- Job 9:5; 28:9
• Scatters
- Hab 3:6

Made to glorify God - Ps 148:9

CALLED

• God's mountains
- Isa 49:11
• The ancient mountains
- De 33:15
• The everlasting mountains
- Hab 3:6
• Perpetual hills
- Heb 3:6
• Everlasting hills
- Ge 49:26
• Pillars of heaven
- Job 26:11

Many exceedingly high - Ps 104:18; Isa 2:14

Collect the vapours which ascend from the earth - Ps 104:6,8

Are the sources of springs and rivers - De 8:7; Ps 104:8-10

Canaan abounded in - De 11:11

Volcanic fires of, alluded to - Isa 64:1,2; Jer 51:25; Na 1:5,6

MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE

• Ararat
- Ge 8:4
• Abarim
- Nu 33:47,48
• Amalek
- Jud 12:15
• Bashan
- Ps 68:15
• Bethel
- 1Sa 13:2
• Carmel
- Jos 15:55; 19:26; 2Ki 19:23
• Ebal
- De 11:29; 27:13
• Ephraim
- Jos 17:15; Jud 2:9
• Gerizim
- De 11:29; Jud 9:7
• Gilboa
- 1Sa 31:1; 2Sa 1:6,21
• Gilead
- Ge 31:21,25; So 4:1
• Hachilah
- 1Sa 23:19
• Hermon
- Jos 13:11
• Hor
- Nu 20:22; 34:7,8
• Horeb
- Ex 3:1
• Lebanon
- De 3:25
• Mizar
- Ps 42:6
• Moreh
- Jud 7:1
• Moriah
- Ge 22:2; 2Ch 3:1
• Nebo (part of Abarim)
- Nu 32:3; De 34:1
• Olives or mount of corruption
- 1Ki 11:7; 2Ki 23:13; Lu 21:37
• Pisgah (part of Abarim)
- Nu 21:20; De 34:1
• Seir
- Ge 14:6; 36:8
• Sinai
- Ex 19:2; 18:20,23; 31:18
• Sion
- 2Sa 5:7
• Tabor
- Jud 4:6,12,14

A defence to a country - Ps 125:2

Afford refuge in time of danger - Ge 14:10; Jud 6:2; Mt 24:16; Heb 11:38

Afforded pasturage - Ex 3:1; 1Sa 25:7; 1Ki 22:17; Ps 147:8; Am 4:1

ABOUNDED WITH

• Herbs
- Pr 27:25
• Minerals
- De 8:9
• Precious things
- De 33:15
• Stone for building
- 1Ki 5:14,17; Da 2:45
• Forests
- 2Ki 19:23; 2Ch 2:2,8-10
• Vineyards
- 2Ch 26:10; Jer 31:5
• Spices
- So 4:6; 8:14
• Deer
- 1Ch 12:8; So 2:8
• Game
- 1Sa 26:20
• Wild beasts
- So 4:8; Hab 2:17

Often inhabited - Ge 36:8; Jos 11:21

Sometimes selected as places for divine worship - Ge 22:2,5; Ex 3:12; Isa 2:2

Often selected as places for idolatrous worship - De 12:2; 2Ch 21:11

Proclamations often made from - Isa 40:9

Beacons or ensigns often raised upon - Isa 13:2; 30:17

ILLUSTRATIVE

• Of difficulties
- Isa 40:4; Zec 4:7; Mt 17:20
• Of persons in authority
- Ps 72:3; Isa 44:23
• Of the church of God
- Isa 2:2; Da 2:35,44,45
• Of God's righteousness
- Ps 36:6
• Of proud and haughty persons
- Isa 2:14
• (Burning,) of destructive enemies
- Jer 51:25; Re 8:8
• (Breaking forth into singing,) of exceeding joy
- Isa 44:23; 55:12
• (Threshing of,) of heavy judgments
- Isa 41:15
• (Made waste,) of desolation
- Isa 42:15; Mal 1:3
• (Dropping new wine,) of abundance
- Am 9:13
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