Mountain and hill imagery uses height, ascent, holy mountains, and surrounding hills to describe revelation, worship, refuge, kingdom exaltation, or human pride brought low.
Mountain and hill imagery uses height, ascent, holy mountains, and surrounding hills to describe revelation, worship, refuge, kingdom exaltation, or human pride brought low.
A biblical place-and-elevation motif in which mountains and hills function as locations of divine encounter, covenant revelation, Zion hope, security, judgment, or eschatological exaltation.
These examples show how Mountain and Hill Imagery functions in biblical language, rhetoric, poetry, prophecy, narrative, or theological imagery.
in the mount of the LORD it shall be seen
Mountain language marks the place of divine provision and covenant memory.
mount Sinai was altogether on smoke
Mountain imagery frames Sinai as the place of terrifying covenant revelation.
I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills
The hills raise the question of help, directing faith to the LORD who made heaven and earth.
as the mountains are round about Jerusalem
Surrounding mountains picture the LORD’s protective care for His people.
the mountain of the LORD’s house
Holy-mountain imagery portrays the exaltation of true worship above the nations.
every mountain and hill shall be made low
Leveled mountains picture the removal of obstacles before the LORD’s coming.
a city that is set on an hill
Hill imagery makes the disciples’ visible witness impossible to hide.
bringeth them up into an high mountain
The high mountain setting frames the transfiguration as revelatory encounter.
ye are come unto mount Sion
Mount Zion imagery names the heavenly reality approached by the new-covenant people.
to a great and high mountain
The high mountain vision-setting introduces the New Jerusalem in apocalyptic form.
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