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Easton's Bible Dictionary

Ebal:

stony. (1.) A mountain 3,076 feet above the level of the sea, and 1,200 feet above the level of the valley, on the north side of which stood the city of Shechem (q.v.). On this mountain six of the tribes (Deu 27:12,13) were appointed to take their stand and respond according to a prescribed form to the imprecations uttered in the valley, where the law was read by the Levites (Deu 11:29; 27:4,13). This mountain was also the site of the first great altar erected to Jehovah (Deu 27:5-8; Jos 8:30-35). After this the name of Ebal does not again occur in Jewish history. (See GERIZIM.)

(2.) A descendant of Eber (1Ch 1:22), called also Obal (Gen 10:28).

(3.) A descendant of Seir the Horite (Gen 36:23).

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Ebal:

ancient heaps

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Ebal:

(stone, bare mountain).

(1.) One of the sons of Shobal the son of Seir (Genesis 36:23; 1 Chronicles 1:40).

(2.) Obal the son of Joktan (1 Chronicles 1:22 compare Genesis 10:28).

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