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Mount Nebo

East of the Jordan, opposite Jericho (Jordan) · Old Testament · 6 verses

Mount Nebo is a height in the land of Moab east of the Jordan, opposite Jericho. Its summit, called Pisgah, looks across to the promised land. The name appears in Numbers, Deuteronomy in the King James text.

About Mount Nebo

Mount Nebo is a height in the land of Moab east of the Jordan, opposite Jericho. Its summit, called Pisgah, looks across to the promised land.

Its place in the story

From Mount Nebo, Moses viewed the whole promised land that he would not enter, and there he died and was buried by the Lord. It marks the end of the wilderness journey. The Lord showed Moses the land from its summit.

Mount Nebo in Scripture (KJV)

“And from Bamoth in the valley, that is in the country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looketh toward Jeshimon.”
Numbers 21:20 (KJV)
“And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.”
Numbers 23:14 (KJV)
“Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold it with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan.”
Deuteronomy 3:27 (KJV)
“And all the plain on this side Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah.”
Deuteronomy 4:49 (KJV)
“Get thee up into this mountain Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession:”
Deuteronomy 32:49 (KJV)
“And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the LORD shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan,”
Deuteronomy 34:1 (KJV)

Where it leads

Moses' view of the promised land from Nebo, which he could not enter, points to the greater rest and inheritance secured for God's people through Christ.

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Where is Mount Nebo in the Bible?

Mount Nebo is a height in the land of Moab east of the Jordan, opposite Jericho. Its summit, called Pisgah, looks across to the promised land. The name appears in Numbers, Deuteronomy in the King James text.

What happened at Mount Nebo?

From Mount Nebo, Moses viewed the whole promised land that he would not enter, and there he died and was buried by the Lord. It marks the end of the wilderness journey. The Lord showed Moses the land from its summit.

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