- Mount of the Amorites
- The range of hills which rises abruptly in the wilderness of et-Tih ("the wandering"), mentioned Deut. 1:19, 20, "that great and terrible wilderness."
Easton's Bible Dictionary. M.G. Easton. 1897.
Mount of the Amorites
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