Tabor

Narrator: Chris Genthree
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Mt. Tabor
Mt. Tabor
Mt. Tabor from the Air
Mt. Tabor From the Air
1. A conspicuous mountain in Galilee, about seven miles east of Nazareth. It formed a boundary to Issachar and Zebulon. Its sides are well wooded, and on the summit is an irregular plain of about a mile in circuit, with ruins of fortifications. The height of it is 1,843 feet (Josh. 19:22; Judg. 4:6-14; Judg. 8:18; Psalm 89:12; Jer. 46:18; Hos. 5:1). It is now called Jebel et Tor, 32° 41' N, 35° 23' E. Tradition makes this the mount of Transfiguration; but it is more probable that some part of mount Hermon was chosen for the transfiguration. This has good moral associations (compare Psa. 133:3), and would be more private than Tabor.
2. The “plain of Tabor” in 1 Samuel 10:3 should be read the “oak of Tabor” as in the RV.
3. Levitical city in the tribe of Zebulun (1 Chron. 6:77). The list of Levitical cities in Joshua 21 does not contain this name. See CHESULLOTH.
Mt. Tabor