Mountains · Moab

Mount Nebo

What was Mount Nebo?

Mount Nebo is the peak east of the Jordan from which Moses viewed the Promised Land he would not enter.

TodayMount Nebo, Jordan, opposite Jericho
RegionMoab, east of the Jordan
EventMoses’ view of the land and death

At the end of forty years, God brought Moses up from the plains of Moab to Nebo’s headland, Pisgah, across from Jericho.

From there the LORD showed him the whole land — Gilead to the western sea — the promise spread out like a map below.

“Moses the servant of the LORD died there,” and God himself buried him. He was 120, “yet his eyes were undimmed and his vigor undiminished.”

Key verses BSB · Public Domain (CC0)
Deuteronomy 34:1 “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,” Deuteronomy 34:5 “So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, as the LORD had said.”
Related places
Jordan RiverJerichoMoab
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Original BibleDawn profile. Drafted with AI assistance and reviewed for accuracy. Scripture quoted from the public-domain Berean Standard Bible.