Mountains
118 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
76 sections
- (Breaking Forth Into Singing) of Exceeding Joy
- (Burning) of Destructive Enemies
- (Dropping New Wine) of Abundance
- (Made Waste) of Desolation
- (Threshing of) Heavy Judgments
- A Defence to a Country
- Abarim
- Abounded With: Deer
- Abounded With: Forests
- Abounded With: Game
- Abounded With: Herbs
- Abounded With: Minerals
- Abounded With: Precious Things
- Abounded With: Spices
- Abounded With: Stone for Building
- Abounded With: Vineyards
- Abounded With: Wild Beasts
- Afford Refuge in Time of Danger
- Afforded Pasturage
- Amalek
- Ararat
- Bashan
- Beacons or Ensigns often Raised Upon
- Bethel
- Called: Everlasting Hills
- Called: God's Mountains
- Called: Perpetual Hills
- Called: Pillars of Heaven
- Called: The Ancient Mountains
- Called: The Everlasting Mountains
- Canaan Abounded In
- Carmel
- Collect the Vapours Which Ascend from the Earth
- Ebal
- Ephraim
- Gerizim
- Gilboa
- Gilead
- God: Causes, to Melt
- God: Causes, to Skip
- God: Causes, to Smoke
- God: Causes, to Tremble
- God: Formed
- God: Gives Strength To
- God: Makes Waste
- God: Overturns
- God: Parches, with Draught
- God: Removes
- God: Scatters
- God: Set Fast
- God: Sets the Foundations of, on Fire
- God: Waters, from his Chambers
- God: Weighs, in a Balance
- Hachilah
- Hermon
- Hor
- Horeb
- Lebanon
- Made to Glorify God
- Many Exceedingly High
- Mizar
- Moreh
- Moriah
- Nebo (Part of Abarim)
- Often Inhabited
- Often Selected As Places for Idolatrous Worship
- Olives or Mount of Corruption
- Pisgah (Part of Abarim)
- Proclamations often Made From
- Seir
- Sinai
- Sion
- Sometimes Selected As Places for Divine Worship
- Tabor
- The Elevated Parts of the Earth
- Volcanic Fires of, Alluded To
(Breaking Forth Into Singing) of Exceeding Joy
- Isaiah 44:23 Sing for joy, O heavens, for the LORD has done this; shout aloud, O depths of the earth. Break forth in song, O mountains, you forests and all your trees. For the LORD has redeemed Jacob, and revealed His glory in Israel.
- Isaiah 55:12 You will indeed go out with joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.
(Burning) of Destructive Enemies
- Jeremiah 51:25 “Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, you who devastate the whole earth, declares the LORD. I will stretch out My hand against you; I will roll you over the cliffs and turn you into a charred mountain.
- Revelation 8:8 Then the second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a great mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned to blood,
(Dropping New Wine) of Abundance
- Amos 9:13 “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when the plowman will overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes, the sower of seed. The mountains will drip with sweet wine, with which all the hills will flow.
(Made Waste) of Desolation
- Isaiah 42:15 I will lay waste the mountains and hills and dry up all their vegetation. I will turn the rivers into dry land and drain the marshes.
- Malachi 1:3 but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”
(Threshing of) Heavy Judgments
- Isaiah 41:15 Behold, I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them, and reduce the hills to chaff.
A Defence to a Country
- Psalm 125:2 As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds His people, both now and forevermore.
Abarim
- Numbers 33:47–48 They set out from Almon-diblathaim and camped in the mountains of Abarim facing Nebo. …
Abounded With: Deer
- 1 Chronicles 12:8 Some Gadites defected to David at his stronghold in the wilderness. They were mighty men of valor, trained for battle, experts with the shield and spear, whose faces were like the faces of lions and who were as swift as gazelles …
- Song of Solomon 2:8 Listen! My beloved approaches. Look! Here he comes, leaping across the mountains, bounding over the hills.
Abounded With: Forests
- 2 Kings 19:23 Through your servants you have taunted the Lord, and you have said: “With my many chariots I have ascended to the heights of the mountains, to the remote peaks of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the finest of its …
- 2 Chronicles 2:2 So he conscripted 70,000 porters, 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains, and 3,600 supervisors.
Abounded With: Game
- 1 Samuel 26:20 So do not let my blood fall to the ground far from the presence of the LORD. For the king of Israel has come out to look for a flea, like one who hunts a partridge in the mountains.”
Abounded With: Herbs
- Proverbs 27:25 When hay is removed and new growth appears and the grass from the hills is gathered,
Abounded With: Minerals
- Deuteronomy 8:9 a land where you will eat food without scarcity, where you will lack nothing; a land whose rocks are iron and whose hills are ready to be mined for copper.
Abounded With: Precious Things
- Deuteronomy 33:15 with the best of the ancient mountains and the bounty of the everlasting hills,
Abounded With: Spices
- Song of Solomon 4:6 Before the day breaks and the shadows flee, I will make my way to the mountain of myrrh and to the hill of frankincense.
- Song of Solomon 8:14 Come away, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices.
Abounded With: Stone for Building
- 1 Kings 5:14 He sent them to Lebanon in monthly shifts of 10,000 men, so that they would spend one month in Lebanon and two months at home. And Adoniram was in charge of the forced labor.
- 1 Kings 5:17 And the king commanded them to quarry large, costly stones to lay the foundation of the temple with dressed stones.
- Daniel 2:45 And just as you saw a stone being cut out of the mountain without human hands, and it shattered the iron, bronze, clay, silver, and gold, so the great God has told the king what will happen in the future. The dream is true, and …
Abounded With: Vineyards
- 2 Chronicles 26:10 Since he had much livestock in the foothills and in the plain, he built towers in the desert and dug many cisterns. And since he was a lover of the soil, he had farmers and vinedressers in the hill country and in the fertile fields.
- Jeremiah 31:5 Again you will plant vineyards on the hills of Samaria; the farmers will plant and enjoy the fruit.
Abounded With: Wild Beasts
- Song of Solomon 4:8 Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, come with me from Lebanon! Descend from the peak of Amana, from the summits of Senir and Hermon, from the dens of the lions, from the mountains of the leopards.
- Habakkuk 2:17 For your violence against Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of animals will terrify you, because of your bloodshed against men and your violence against the land, the city, and all their dwellers.
Afford Refuge in Time of Danger
- Genesis 14:10 Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some men fell into the pits, but the survivors fled to the hill country.
- Judges 6:2 and the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel. Because of the Midianites, the Israelites prepared shelters for themselves in the mountains, caves, and strongholds.
- Matthew 24:16 then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
- Hebrews 11:38 The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, and hid in caves and holes in the ground.
Afforded Pasturage
- Exodus 3:1 Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
- 1 Samuel 25:7 Now I hear that it is time for shearing. When your shepherds were with us, we did not harass them, and nothing of theirs was missing the whole time they were in Carmel.
- 1 Kings 22:17 So Micaiah declared: “I saw all Israel scattered on the hills like sheep without a shepherd. And the LORD said, ‘These people have no master; let each one return home in peace.’”
- Psalm 147:8 who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the hills.
- Amos 4:1 Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your husbands, “Bring us more to drink.”
Amalek
- Judges 12:15 Then Abdon son of Hillel, from Pirathon, died, and he was buried at Pirathon in Ephraim, in the hill country of the Amalekites.
Ararat
- Genesis 8:4 On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
Bashan
- Psalm 68:15 A mountain of God is Mount Bashan; a mountain of many peaks is Mount Bashan.
Beacons or Ensigns often Raised Upon
- Isaiah 13:2 Raise a banner on a barren hilltop; call aloud to them. Wave your hand, that they may enter the gates of the nobles.
- Isaiah 30:17 A thousand will flee at the threat of one; at the threat of five you will all flee, until you are left alone like a pole on a mountaintop, like a banner on a hill.
Bethel
- 1 Samuel 13:2 He chose for himself three thousand men of Israel: Two thousand were with Saul at Michmash and in the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. And the rest of the troops he sent away, each …
Called: Everlasting Hills
- Genesis 49:26 The blessings of your father have surpassed the blessings of the ancient mountains and the bounty of the everlasting hills. May they rest on the head of Joseph, on the brow of the prince of his brothers.
Called: God's Mountains
- Isaiah 49:11 I will turn all My mountains into roads, and My highways will be raised up.
Called: Perpetual Hills
- Hebrews 3:6 But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are His house, if we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope of which we boast.
Called: Pillars of Heaven
- Job 26:11 The foundations of heaven quake, astounded at His rebuke.
Called: The Ancient Mountains
- Deuteronomy 33:15 with the best of the ancient mountains and the bounty of the everlasting hills,
Called: The Everlasting Mountains
- Habakkuk 3:6 He stood and measured the earth; He looked and startled the nations; the ancient mountains crumbled; the perpetual hills collapsed. His ways are everlasting.
Canaan Abounded In
- Deuteronomy 11:11 But the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks in the rain from heaven.
Carmel
- Joshua 15:55 Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Juttah,
- Joshua 19:26 Allammelech, Amad, and Mishal. On the west the border touched Carmel and Shihor-libnath,
- 2 Kings 19:23 Through your servants you have taunted the Lord, and you have said: “With my many chariots I have ascended to the heights of the mountains, to the remote peaks of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the finest of its …
Collect the Vapours Which Ascend from the Earth
- Psalm 104:6 You covered it with the deep like a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.
- Psalm 104:8 the mountains rose and the valleys sank to the place You assigned for them —
Ebal
- Deuteronomy 11:29 When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess, you are to proclaim the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.
- Deuteronomy 27:13 And these tribes shall stand on Mount Ebal to deliver the curse: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.
Ephraim
- Joshua 17:15 Joshua answered them, “If you have so many people that the hill country of Ephraim is too small for you, go to the forest and clear for yourself an area in the land of the Perizzites and the Rephaim.”
- Judges 2:9 They buried him in the land of his inheritance, at Timnath-heres in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.
Gerizim
- Deuteronomy 11:29 When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess, you are to proclaim the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.
- Judges 9:7 When this was reported to Jotham, he climbed to the top of Mount Gerizim, raised his voice, and cried out: “Listen to me, O leaders of Shechem, and may God listen to you.
Gilboa
- 1 Samuel 31:1 Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before them, and many fell slain on Mount Gilboa.
- 2 Samuel 1:6 “I happened to be on Mount Gilboa,” he replied, “and there was Saul, leaning on his spear, with the chariots and the cavalry closing in on him.
- 2 Samuel 1:21 O mountains of Gilboa, may you have no dew or rain, no fields yielding offerings of grain. For there the shield of the mighty was defiled, the shield of Saul, no longer anointed with oil.
Gilead
- Genesis 31:21 So he fled with all his possessions, crossed the Euphrates, and headed for the hill country of Gilead.
- Genesis 31:25 Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead when Laban overtook him, and Laban and his relatives camped there as well.
- Song of Solomon 4:1 How beautiful you are, my darling— how very beautiful! Your eyes are like doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down Mount Gilead.
God: Causes, to Melt
- Judges 5:5 The mountains quaked before the LORD, the One of Sinai, before the LORD, the God of Israel.
- Psalm 97:5 The mountains melt like wax at the presence of the LORD, before the Lord of all the earth.
- Isaiah 64:1 If only You would rend the heavens and come down, so that mountains would quake at Your presence,
- Isaiah 64:3 When You did awesome works that we did not expect, You came down, and the mountains trembled at Your presence.
God: Causes, to Skip
- Psalm 114:4 the mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.
- Psalm 114:6 O mountains, that you skipped like rams, O hills, like lambs?
God: Causes, to Smoke
- Psalm 104:32 He looks on the earth, and it trembles; He touches the mountains, and they smolder.
- Psalm 144:5 Part Your heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke.
God: Causes, to Tremble
- Nahum 1:5 The mountains quake before Him, and the hills melt away; the earth trembles at His presence— the world and all its dwellers.
- Habakkuk 3:10 The mountains saw You and quaked; torrents of water swept by. The deep roared with its voice and lifted its hands on high.
God: Formed
- Amos 4:13 For behold, He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind and reveals His thoughts to man, who turns the dawn to darkness and strides on the heights of the earth— the LORD, the God of Hosts, is His name.”
God: Gives Strength To
- Psalm 95:4 In His hand are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to Him.
God: Makes Waste
- Isaiah 42:15 I will lay waste the mountains and hills and dry up all their vegetation. I will turn the rivers into dry land and drain the marshes.
God: Overturns
God: Parches, with Draught
- Haggai 1:11 I have summoned a drought on the fields and on the mountains, on the grain, new wine, and oil, and on whatever the ground yields, on man and beast, and on all the labor of your hands.”
God: Removes
- Job 9:5 He moves mountains without their knowledge and overturns them in His anger.
God: Scatters
- Habakkuk 3:6 He stood and measured the earth; He looked and startled the nations; the ancient mountains crumbled; the perpetual hills collapsed. His ways are everlasting.
God: Set Fast
- Psalm 65:6 You formed the mountains by Your power, having girded Yourself with might.
God: Sets the Foundations of, on Fire
- Deuteronomy 32:22 For a fire has been kindled by My anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and scorches the foundations of the mountains.
God: Waters, from his Chambers
- Psalm 104:13 He waters the mountains from His chambers; the earth is satisfied by the fruit of His works.
God: Weighs, in a Balance
- Isaiah 40:12 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on a scale and the hills with a balance?
Hachilah
- 1 Samuel 23:19 Then the Ziphites came up to Saul at Gibeah and said, “Is not David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh, on the hill of Hachilah south of Jeshimon?
Hermon
- Joshua 13:11 also Gilead and the territory of the Geshurites and Maacathites, all of Mount Hermon, and all Bashan as far as Salecah—
Hor
- Numbers 20:22 After they had set out from Kadesh, the whole congregation of Israel came to Mount Hor.
- Numbers 34:7–8 Your northern border will run from the Great Sea directly to Mount Hor, …
Horeb
- Exodus 3:1 Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
Lebanon
- Deuteronomy 3:25 Please let me cross over and see the good land beyond the Jordan — that pleasant hill country as well as Lebanon!”
Made to Glorify God
- Psalm 148:9 mountains and all hills, fruit trees and all cedars,
Many Exceedingly High
- Psalm 104:18 The high mountains are for the wild goats, the cliffs a refuge for the rock badgers.
- Isaiah 2:14 against all the tall mountains, against all the high hills,
Mizar
- Psalm 42:6 O my God, my soul despairs within me. Therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan and the peaks of Hermon — even from Mount Mizar.
Moreh
- Judges 7:1 Early in the morning Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the men with him camped beside the spring of Harod. And the camp of Midian was north of them in the valley near the hill of Moreh.
Moriah
- Genesis 22:2 “Take your son,” God said, “your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you.”
- 2 Chronicles 3:1 Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David. This was the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
Nebo (Part of Abarim)
- Numbers 32:3 “Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,
- Deuteronomy 34:1 Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which faces Jericho. And the LORD showed him the whole land — from Gilead as far as Dan,
Often Inhabited
- Genesis 36:8 So Esau (that is, Edom) settled in the area of Mount Seir.
- Joshua 11:21 At that time Joshua proceeded to eliminate the Anakim from the hill country of Hebron, Debir, and Anab, and from all the hill country of Judah and of Israel. Joshua devoted them to destruction, along with their cities.
Often Selected As Places for Idolatrous Worship
- Deuteronomy 12:2 Destroy completely all the places where the nations you are dispossessing have served their gods— atop the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.
- 2 Chronicles 21:11 Jehoram had also built high places on the hills of Judah; he had caused the people of Jerusalem to prostitute themselves and had led Judah astray.
Olives or Mount of Corruption
- 1 Kings 11:7 At that time on a hill east of Jerusalem, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites.
- 2 Kings 23:13 The king also desecrated the high places east of Jerusalem, to the south of the Mount of Corruption, which King Solomon of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the abomination of the …
- Luke 21:37 Every day Jesus taught at the temple, but every evening He went out to spend the night on the Mount of Olives.
Pisgah (Part of Abarim)
- Numbers 21:20 and from Bamoth to the valley in Moab where the top of Pisgah overlooks the wasteland.
- Deuteronomy 34:1 Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which faces Jericho. And the LORD showed him the whole land — from Gilead as far as Dan,
Proclamations often Made From
- Isaiah 40:9 Go up on a high mountain, O Zion, herald of good news. Raise your voice loudly, O Jerusalem, herald of good news. Lift it up, do not be afraid! Say to the cities of Judah, “Here is your God!”
Seir
- Genesis 14:6 and the Horites in the area of Mount Seir, as far as El-paran, which is near the desert.
- Genesis 36:8 So Esau (that is, Edom) settled in the area of Mount Seir.
Sinai
- Exodus 19:2 After they had set out from Rephidim, they entered the Wilderness of Sinai, and Israel camped there in front of the mountain.
- Exodus 18:20 Teach them the statutes and laws, and show them the way to live and the work they must do.
- Exodus 18:23 If you follow this advice and God so directs you, then you will be able to endure, and all these people can go home in peace.”
- Exodus 31:18 When the LORD had finished speaking with Moses on Mount Sinai, He gave him the two tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.
Sion
- 2 Samuel 5:7 Nevertheless, David captured the fortress of Zion (that is, the City of David).
Sometimes Selected As Places for Divine Worship
- Genesis 22:2 “Take your son,” God said, “your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you.”
- Genesis 22:5 “Stay here with the donkey,” Abraham told his servants. “The boy and I will go over there to worship, and then we will return to you.”
- Exodus 3:12 “I will surely be with you,” God said, “and this will be the sign to you that I have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, all of you will worship God on this mountain.”
- Isaiah 2:2 In the last days the mountain of the house of the LORD will be established as the chief of the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and all nations will stream to it.
Tabor
- Judges 4:6 She summoned Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali and said to him, “Surely the LORD, the God of Israel, is commanding you: ‘Go and march to Mount Tabor, taking with you ten thousand men of Naphtali and Zebulun.
- Judges 4:12 When Sisera was told that Barak son of Abinoam had gone up Mount Tabor,
- Judges 4:14 Then Deborah said to Barak, “Arise, for this is the day that the LORD has delivered Sisera into your hand. Has not the LORD gone before you?” So Barak came down from Mount Tabor with ten thousand men following him.
The Elevated Parts of the Earth
- Genesis 7:19–20 Finally, the waters completely prevailed upon the earth, so that all the high mountains under all the heavens were covered. …
Volcanic Fires of, Alluded To
- Isaiah 64:1–2 If only You would rend the heavens and come down, so that mountains would quake at Your presence, …
- Jeremiah 51:25 “Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, you who devastate the whole earth, declares the LORD. I will stretch out My hand against you; I will roll you over the cliffs and turn you into a charred mountain.
- Nahum 1:5–6 The mountains quake before Him, and the hills melt away; the earth trembles at His presence— the world and all its dwellers. …
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.