They had traversed the defiles of the terrible and precipitous Arabah. The congregation had mourned for Aaron under the shadow of Mount Hor, "rising high aloft into the blue sky, like a huge, grand, but shattered rock-city, with vast cliffs, perpendicular walls of stone, pinnacles, and naked peaks of every shape." They had witnessed the security of Edom in the hills in which now stand the wondrous rock-hewn ruin of Petra. The older men could remember the seclusion and granitic sublimity of the rock sanctuary of Sinai. Rock - rock - rock - Israel had seen little else during the thirty-eight years of wandering.
It was a name full of significance to those familiar with the desert. 15, 18, 31, 37.) This name for God occurs chiefly in this song of Moses, and in the compositions of David and of later psalmists. He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
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