Where or what is Mount Paran?

Question

I believe the bible mentions a Mt. Paran. Does anyone know what took place on this particular mount and where it is? Thanks.

There is a church in Indianapolis, IN, that has an addition built onto it named the Mt. Paran Annex. I was just curuious. Thanks for your time and for all the terrific answers.

Answer 1

(3) Mount Paran (Deu_33:2; Hab_3:3) may be either Jebel Maḳrah, 29 miles South of ‛Ain Ḳadis (Kadesh-barnea), and 130 miles North of Sinai (Palmer, Desert of the Exodus, 510); or the higher and more imposing range of mountains West of the Gulf of ‛Aḳaba. This is the more probable if El-paran is rightly identified with Elath.

Deuteronomy 33:2 And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.

Barnes commentary - By “Seir” is to be understood the mountain-land of the Edomites, and by “mount Paran” the range which forms the northern boundary of the desert of Sinai (compare Gen_14:6 note). Thus the verse forms a poetical description of the vast arena upon which the glorious manifestation of the Lord in the giving of the covenant took place.

Gill commentary - he shined forth from Mount Paran: in which the metaphor of the sun rising is continued, and as expressive of its increasing light and splendour: near to this mount was a wilderness of the same name, through which the children of Israel travelled, and where the Lord appeared to them: here the cloud rested when they removed from Sinai; here, or near it, the Spirit of the Lord was given to the seventy elders, and from hence the spies were sent into the land of Canaan, Num_10:12; in this wilderness Ishmael and his posterity dwelt, Gen_21:21; but it was not to them the Lord shone forth here, as say the above Jewish writers, and others (d); but to the Israelites, for here Moses repeated the law, or delivered to them what is contained in the book of Deuteronomy, see Deu_1:1; beside, in a literal sense, as these mountains were very near one another, as Saadiah Gaon observes, the great light which shone on Mount Sinai, when the Lord descended on it, might extend to the other mountains and illuminate them, see Hab_3:3,

Answer 2

Mount Paran

probably the hilly region or upland wilderness on the north of the desert of Paran forming the southern boundary of the Promised Land (Deut. 33:2; Hab. 3:3)

Answer 3

Near the wilderness of Paran, adjacent to the territory of the horites, near Sinia. Strange question to be puzzling about I'd love to know why?