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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."
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The Quran mentions the Zabur, interpreted as being the Book of Psalms, [14] as being the holy scripture revealed to King David . Scholars have often understood the Psalms to have been holy songs of praise, and not a book administering law. [15] The current Psalms are still praised by many Muslim scholars. [16]
Pisgah (פִּסְגָּה) is a Biblical Hebrew word with several meanings: it can be used to describe someone’s best achievement; another meaning is the highest point of a mountain, “summit”. Some translators of the Bible book of Deuteronomy translated the word as a name of a mountain in general, usually referring to Mount Nebo .
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Mount Pisgah is a 2,090-foot-tall (640 m) mountain in Essex County on the northern edge of the village of Saranac Lake. The mountain is privately owned. The mountain is privately owned. There is a small, dispersed housing development on the south side, communications towers on the summit, and a village ski area on the north side.
Mount Pisgah is a small volcanic lava dome 11 km from Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. [1] [2] The name derives from the summit of the Biblical Mount Nebo, from which Moses first saw the Promised Land (Deuteronomy 34:1–4). [3] The Djadjawurrung and Wathawurrung name for the mount is Morambulbuledj. [4] It is 559 metres above sea level. [1]