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Look closely at the photo above and you’ll see a
white building on the peak of the mountain. Known as Jabal Haroun (Aaron’s
Mountain), it is just a couple of miles southwest of the ancient city of Petra,
and is visible from many vantage points.
Local tradition has it as the place where Aaron
(in Arabic Haroun), the brother of Moses (Mousa), died and was buried during
the Israelite’s wilderness wandering. The association of this mountain with the
biblical account of Aaron’s death, Jabal Haroun has also been called Mt. Hor,
where the event is described to have taken place (Numbers 20:23-28).
As early as the 1st century AD, the historian Flavius
Josephus put the final resting place of Aaron on a mountaintop near Petra.
Later this information was repeated by the church historian Eusebius.
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