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In the Book of Numbers, Chapter 23, Mount Pisgah is listed as one of several locations from which the Moabite King, Balak, tries unsuccessfully to persuade the prophet Balaam to curse Israel: "So he took him to the field of Zophim on the top of Pisgah, and there he built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar."
The Mount Pisgah Arboretum covers 209 acres (0.85 km 2) at the base of Mount Pisgah and offers visitors 7 miles (11 km) of trails through natural riverside habitat and hundreds of cataloged plant species. [2] As of May 2020, admission is $5 per car and permits can be purchased at a self-service pay station, card only. [3]
Mount Nebo is then mentioned again in 2 Maccabees , when the prophet Jeremiah hid the tabernacle and the Ark of the Covenant in a cave there. A Christian church from Byzantine times stands on the top of Mount Nebo. On March 20, 2000, Pope John Paul II visited the summit of Mount Nebo during his pilgrimage to the Holy Land. [3]
Nelson Glueck describes the Plains of Moab as having the shape of a "truncated harp", with its northern limit marked by Wadi Nimrin, and the southern tip created by the Moab hills south of Wadi el-'Azeimeh, which stretch out from the Moab Plateau toward the NE end of the Dead Sea, closing off the Plains. [2]
Abarim (Hebrew: הָעֲבָרִים, romanized: Hā-Avārīm) [1] [2] is the Hebrew name used in the Bible for a mountain range "across the Jordan", understood as east of the Jordan Rift Valley, i.e. in Transjordan, to the east and south-east of the Dead Sea, extending from Mount Nebo — its highest point — in the north, perhaps to the Arabian desert in the south.
Mount Pisgah is a mountain in the Appalachian mountain range and part of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, United States.The mountain's height is 5,721 feet (1,744 m) above sea level, and it sits approximately 15 miles (24 kilometers) southwest of Asheville, near the crossing of the boundaries of Buncombe, Haywood, Henderson and Transylvania counties.
Mount Pisgah is the name of several mountains and places: Communities. Mount Pisgah, Georgia, an unincorporated community; Mount Pisgah, Indiana, an unincorporated ...
A sandstone outcrop on the flanks of Mount Pisgah. Wildcat Mountain State Park lies within the Driftless Area. This is an area of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois that was not covered by glaciers in the Last Ice Age. [3] The term "driftless" indicates a lack of glacial drift, the material left behind by retreating continental glaciers.