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Pisgah

Moab (Transjordan) · Old Testament · 5 verses

Pisgah was a height in the land of Moab, closely linked with Mount Nebo. It gave a view across the Jordan into Canaan. The name appears in Numbers, Deuteronomy in the King James text.

About Pisgah

Pisgah was a height in the land of Moab, closely linked with Mount Nebo. It gave a view across the Jordan into Canaan.

Its place in the story

From the top of Pisgah Moses looked out over the promised land that he would not enter. It is one of the vantage points named in the last chapters of the wilderness journey.

Pisgah 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)

“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 viewing the land from Pisgah but not entering points to the greater rest and inheritance that Scripture says is opened through Christ.

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