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CORRUPTION, MOUNT OF

The geographical mountain site (Heb. har-hammašḥîṯ) E of Jerusalem on which Solomon erected the high places for the worship of the deities of his foreign wives (1 Kgs. 11:7) and which was destroyed by the reforming King Josiah (2 Kgs. 23:13). The Hebrew root šḥt can be understood as “destroy,” “corrupt,” “ruin,” and in one case “disfigure” (Lev. 22:25). In many contexts it carries a moral or cultic sense of violation of covenant that expects divine judgment, as with Jeremiah’s prophecy against this mountain (Jer. 51:25). From the Vulgate’s Lat. Mons offensionis has come the traditional modern name “Mount of Offense.” The site is probably to be identified with the southern ridge of the Mount of Olives occupied by the Silwan village on its western side.

J. Randall Price






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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