The Memorable Mount Horeb
THERE are many memorable mountains, but none are so much so as Horeb. Here the Lord appeared to Moses in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. Here the glory of God shone forth at the promulgation of the moral law. Here the rod in the hands of Moses brought water out of the smitten rock—which rock was a type of Christ. Here the weary hands of Moses were stayed by Aaron and Hur, which caused victory to perch upon the banner of Israel. Here the sage fasted twice forty days and forty nights. Here was he presented with the two tables of the law which he committed to God's covenant people. And it was on this mount that the eyes and heart of the prophet Elijah were gladdened by a celestial vision. Even by one of these events, Horeb would have been made memorable, how much more it is made so by seven such events!