MOUNT OF, a ridge, now called by the Arabs Jebel-el-Tur, lying on the E. of Jerusalem, on the other side of the narrow valley of Jehoshaphat. Towards the S., over against the "well of Nehemiah," it sinks down into a lower height, now called by Franks the "Mount of Offence," in allusion to the idolatrous worship established there by Solomon. Near this lies the usual road to Bethany, so often trodden by our Saviour. About a mile towards the N. is another summit, nearly equal in height to the middle one. Beyond the northern summit the ridge sweeps round towards the W., and spreads out into the high level tract N. of the city, which is skirted on the W. and S. by the upper part of the valley of Jehoshaphat. The elevation of the central peak of the Mount of Olives is estimated by Schubert at 2556 Paris feet, or 416 Paris feet above the valley of Jehoshaphat. This considerable ridge derives all its importance from its sacred associations. To the mount whose ascent David "went up, weeping and barefoot," to which our Saviour oftentimes withdrew with his disciples, over which he often passed, and from which he eventually ascended into heaven, belongs a higher degree of sacred and moral interest than is to be found in mere physical magnitude, or than the record connects even with Lebanon, Tabor, or Ararat.