Note 59 — Chapter I · THE HEBREW PATRIARCHS
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The expression ‘mountain of the Amorites,’ which we meet with in Deut. i. 7, 19, takes us back to Abrahamic times. One of the campaigns of Samsu-iluna, the son and successor of Khammu-rabi or Amraphel, was against ‘the great mountain of the land of the Amorites’ (kharsag gal mad Martu-ki, Bu. 91-5-9, 333; Rev. 19).