A mountain in the Abarim range, located in Moab northeast of the Dead Sea, where God showed Moses the promised land (Deuteronomy 34:1–3).
About Pisgah
A mountain located at the northeast end of the Dead Sea near the ancient city of Jericho. King Balak took the fortuneteller Balaam to the top of Pisgah (Numbers 23:14). God told Moses to go to its summit to view the promised land (Deuteronomy 3:27). Later, Moses returned to the top of Pisgah to die (34:1).
The slopes of Pisgah border the Dead Sea, also known as the Sea of the Arabah (Deuteronomy 3:17; 4:49; Joshua 12:3; 13:20). The King James Version sometimes refers to these slopes as “Ashdoth-pisgah.” Many scholars identify Mount Pisgah with modern, Ras es-Siyaghah, north of Mount Nebo.
Key References
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.
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,
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.
All Scripture References (8)
Numbers (2)
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.
Deuteronomy (4)
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,
Joshua (2)
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—