Biblical places
Mount Nebo
Where Moses viewed the land of Canaan before he died (Deuteronomy 34). Rising above the plains of Moab east of the Jordan Valley, widely identified with Jabal Siyagha, site of Byzantine church ruins and a modern pilgrimage site.
Sources and location confidence
- Location confidence
- Very High
- Jabal Siyagha
- 31.7678, 35.7256
A mountain where tradition and archaeological pilgrimage tradition agree, with almost no coordinate difference between sources.
Related Bible passages
These are selected indexed references, not an exhaustive list of every mention in the Bible.
Numbers 32:3
Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon,
Deuteronomy 32:49
Get thee up into this mountain Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession:
1 Chronicles 5:8
And Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who dwelt in Aroer, even unto Nebo and Baalmeon:
Isaiah 15:2
He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.
Jeremiah 48:1
Against Moab thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Woe unto Nebo! for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim is confounded and taken: Misgab is confounded and dismayed.
Numbers 32:38
And Nebo, and Baalmeon, (their names being changed,) and Shibmah: and gave other names unto the cities which they builded.
Deuteronomy 34:1
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,
Jeremiah 48:22
And upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon Bethdiblathaim,