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 33:47
And they removed from Almon–diblathaim, and pitched in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.
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:
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,