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Nave Topical Bible
• Carmel
Thompson Chain Reference
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Treasury of Biblical Knowledge
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American Tract Society
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Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Hitchcock Bible Names
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Hastings' BibleDictionary
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Morrish Bible Dictionary
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1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Scapular of Mount Carmel
• Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Feast of
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Hawker's Poor Man's Dictionary
• Mount Carmel
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People's Bible Dictionary
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Smith Bible Dictionary
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Wilson's Bible Types
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Watson's Theological Dictionary
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1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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• Mount Carmel
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
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Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia
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McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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The Catholic Encyclopedia
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• Mount Carmel
The Jewish Encyclopedia
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• Carmel, Mount
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• כַּרְמֶל , כַּרְמֶל

Mount Carmel was the only major headland on the Palestine coast (Jeremiah 46:18). It rose steeply from the sea, then extended inland in a mountain range about twenty kilometres long that divided between the Plain of Esdraelon to the north and the Plain of Sharon to the south. The mountains had good forests and pasture lands (Isaiah 33:9; Isaiah 35:2; Jeremiah 50:19; Amos 1:2; Amos 9:3; Nahum 1:4). (For maps and other details of the region see PALESTINE.)

According to the beliefs of Baalism that Jezebel introduced into Israel from Phoenicia, Mt Carmel was a sacred Baal site. This gives added significance to the contest on Mt Carmel where Elijah defeated the prophets of Baal (1 Kings 18:17-46; see ELIJAH). (Mt Carmel had no connection with a town in Judah named Carmel; 1 Samuel 15:12; 1 Samuel 25:2-42.)