A desert area visible from Mount Pisgah.
About Jeshimon
An extremely dry, empty wilderness at the end of the Dead Sea, not far from Pisgah and Peor (Numbers 21:20; 23:28). In these Bible passages, the Berean Standard Bible renders the word as “wasteland” in the main text. But it has “Jeshimon” in the margin notes. This allows readers to understand it as either a general description or as a specific named area. The Revised Standard Version uses “desert.”
Key References
And Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which overlooks the wasteland.
Then the Ziphites came up to Saul at Gibeah and said, “Is not David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh, on the hill of Hachilah south of Jeshimon?
All Scripture References (6)
Numbers (2)
and from Bamoth to the valley in Moab where the top of Pisgah overlooks the wasteland.
And Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which overlooks the wasteland.
1 Samuel (4)
Then the Ziphites came up to Saul at Gibeah and said, “Is not David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh, on the hill of Hachilah south of Jeshimon?
So they set out and went to Ziph ahead of Saul. Now David and his men were in the Wilderness of Maon in the Arabah south of Jeshimon,
Then the Ziphites came to Saul at Gibeah and said, “Is not David hiding on the hill of Hachilah, opposite Jeshimon?”
Saul camped beside the road at the hill of Hachilah opposite Jeshimon, but David was living in the wilderness. When he realized that Saul had followed him there,