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 (Deut. 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 (11:29; 29:4, 13). This mountain was also the site
    of the first great altar erected to Jehovah (Deut. 27:5-8; Josh.
    8:30-35). After this the name of Ebal does not again occur in
    Jewish history. (See GERIZIM.)

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

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



 Ebal, ancient heaps