Mount Zalmon

Shady; or Zalmon (q.v.), a hill covered with dark forests, south of Shechem, from which Abimelech and his men gathered wood to burn that city (Judg. 9:48). In Ps. 68:14 the change from war to peace is likened to snow on the dark mountain, as some interpret the expression. Others suppose the words here mean that the bones of the slain left unburied covered the land, so that it seemed to be white as if covered with snow. The reference, however, of the psalm is probably to Josh. 11 and 12. The scattering of the kings and their followers is fitly likened unto the snow-flakes rapidly falling on the dark Salmon. It is the modern Jebel Suleiman.

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Show passage in OET: JDG 9:48

OET-RV JDG 9:48

48 So Avimelek and all the people with him, went up to Mt. Tsalmon. He took axes and cut a branch down from the trees, then lifted it onto his shoulder and said to the people who were with him, “What I just did, you all quickly do the same.”

OET-LV JDG 9:48

48 And_he/it _ascended ʼAⱱīmelek the _mountain _of Tsalmōn/(Zalmon) he and_all the_people which with_him/it and_ ʼAⱱīmelek _he/it _took DOM the_axes in_his/its_hand and_he _cut _off a _branch _of wood(s) and_he_lifted _it _up and_he/it _assigned on shoulder _of_his and_he/it _said to the_people which with_him/it whatever you(pl)_have _seen I _have _done hurry do like_me.

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