Mount of the Anointing/ Mount of Corruption

If you're taking a tour to the Holy Land and want to experience as much as possible, make sure you stop at the Mount of the Anointing or the Mount of Corruption. Located on the southern side of the Mount of Olives, this hill has two names; one pleasant and one negative. The name "Mount of Anointing" refers to the fact that olive oil was used to anoint the Kinds of Judah from local trees during biblical times. However, some believe that this is actually the "hill east of Jerusalem" where Solomon built altars for his foreign wives to sacrifice to their idols (1 Kings 11:7 and 2 Kings 23:13). Which is why some of the ancients made a pun on the word for anointing in Hebrew (miskha), using the word Maskhit instead (corruption). Further legends suggest that the drove that returned a branch to Noah took it from an olive branch on that mount. If you visit the Mount of Anointing/Mount of Corruption on your tour to the Holy Land make sure you to the roof of the Catholic guesthouse, which is the House of Abraham, where you can see the Temple Mount, Mount Zion and Kidron Valley.