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Mount Nebo

Moab (Transjordan) · Old Testament · 13 verses

Mount Nebo was a peak in Moab, part of the Pisgah range, overlooking the Jordan valley and the land of Canaan. It stood east of the river across from Jericho. The name appears in Numbers, Deuteronomy, 1 Chronicles and 4 more in the King James text.

About Mount Nebo

Mount Nebo was a peak in Moab, part of the Pisgah range, overlooking the Jordan valley and the land of Canaan. It stood east of the river across from Jericho.

Its place in the story

On Mount Nebo Moses viewed the whole promised land and then died there, and the LORD buried him in the valley of Moab. It marks the end of the life of Moses at the threshold of the land.

Mount Nebo in Scripture (KJV)

“Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon,”
Numbers 32:3 (KJV)
“And Nebo, and Baalmeon, (their names being changed,) and Shibmah: and gave other names unto the cities which they builded.”
Numbers 32:38 (KJV)
“And they removed from Almondiblathaim, and pitched in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.”
Numbers 33:47 (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)
“And Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who dwelt in Aroer, even unto Nebo and Baalmeon:”
1 Chronicles 5:8 (KJV)
“The children of Nebo, fifty and two.”
Ezra 2:29 (KJV)
“Of the sons of Nebo; Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Jadau, and Joel, Benaiah.”
Ezra 10:43 (KJV)

Mount Nebo is named 13 times in Scripture; 8 shown above.

Where it leads

The death of Moses at Nebo, leaving the people to enter under Joshua, points forward to the one who would fully lead God's people home, fulfilled in Christ.

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Where is Mount Nebo in the Bible?

Mount Nebo was a peak in Moab, part of the Pisgah range, overlooking the Jordan valley and the land of Canaan. It stood east of the river across from Jericho. The name appears in Numbers, Deuteronomy, 1 Chronicles and 4 more in the King James text.

What happened at Mount Nebo?

On Mount Nebo Moses viewed the whole promised land and then died there, and the LORD buried him in the valley of Moab. It marks the end of the life of Moses at the threshold of the land.

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