Mount Hor At The Northern Border
Another Mount Hor is mentioned in Numbers 34:7,8, defining the northern boundary of the Land of Israel is traditionally identified as the Nur Mountains known also as Amanus.
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“My name shall mount upon Eternitie.”
—Michael Drayton (1563–1631)
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“For my part, I feel that with regard to Nature I live a sort of border life, on the confines of a world into which I make occasional and transient forays only, and my patriotism and allegiance to the state into whose territories I seem to retreat are those of a moss-trooper.”
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