Pisgah
Pisgah, or the slopes of Pisgah, was a mountain range in Moab where Moses viewed the Promised Land before his death.
The name Pisgah means “hill; eminence; fortress”
PlaceOld Testament3 books8 verses
Summary
A location first mentioned at Numbers 21:20; referred to as Pisgah (פִּסְגָּה) or slopes of Pisgah (אַשְׁדּוֹת פִּסְגָּה).
Location
- Identified as
- Rujm Siyaghah
- Certainty
- Possible (45% of scholarship) · 4 other possible locations
- Coordinates
- 31.768° N, 35.726° E
Alternative names
- פִּסְגָּהPisgah
Mentions
- …and from Bamoth to the valley in Moab where the top of Pisgah overlooks the wasteland.
- So Balak took him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, where he built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
- The Jordan River in the Arabah bordered it from Chinnereth to the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) with the slopes of Pisgah to the east.
- Go to the top of Pisgah and look to the west and north and south and east. See the land with your own eyes, for you will not cross this Jordan.
- …including all the Arabah on the east side of the Jordan and as far as the Sea of the Arabah, below the slopes of Pisgah.
- Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which faces Jericho. And the LORD showed him the whole land—from Gilead as far as Dan,
- …as well as the Arabah east of the Sea of Chinnereth to the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea), eastward through Beth-jeshimoth, and southward below the slopes of Pisgah.
- Beth-peor, the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth-jeshimoth—