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Nebo Mount
Smith's Bible Dictionary
or Ne'bo, Mount. (prophet). The mountain from which Moses took his first and last view of the Promised Land. Deuteronomy 32:41; Deuteronomy 34:1. It is described as in the land of Moab, facing Jericho; the head or summit of a mountain called Pisgah, which again seems to have formed a portion of the general range of Abarim.
(Notwithstanding, the minuteness of this description, it is only recently that any one has succeeded in pointing out, any spot which answers to Nebo. Tristram identifies it with a peak, (Jebel Nebbah), of the Abarim or Moab mountains, about three miles southwest of Heshban (Heshbon) and about a mile and a half due west of Baal-meon.
"It overlooks the mouth of the Jordan, over against Jericho," Deuteronomy 34:1, and the gentle slopes of its sides may well answer to the "field of Zophim." Numbers 23:14. Jebel Nebbah is 2683 feet high. It is not an isolated peak, but one of a succession of bare turf-clad eminences, so linked together that the depressions between them were mere hollows, rather than valleys. It commands a wide prospect.
Professor Paine, of the American Exploration Society, contends that Jebel Nebbah, the highest point of the range, is Mount Nebo, that Jebel Siaghah, the extreme headland of the hill, is Mount Pisgah, and that "the mountains of Abarim, "are the cliffs west of these points, and descending toward the Dead Sea. Probably, the whole mountain or range was called, sometimes, by the name of one peak and, sometimes, by that of another, as is frequently the case with mountains now. - Editor).
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Smith, William, Dr. Entry for 'Nebo Mount'. Smith's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/sbd/n/nebo-mount.html. 1901.
