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Abarim
Named in 5 verses across 3 books, first in Numbers 27:12.
In the Bible
All 3 verses in Numbers, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.
Numbers
- Numbers 27:12
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go up this mountain of the Abarim range and see the land that I have given the Israelites.
- Numbers 33:47
They set out from Almon-diblathaim and camped in the mountains of Abarim facing Nebo.
- Numbers 33:48
They set out from the mountains of Abarim and camped on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.
Dictionary
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. Its geography and “modern” descriptions date from the 1890s. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.
Read Easton’s entry
Regions beyond; i.e., on the east of Jordan, a mountain, or rather a mountain-chain, over against Jericho, to the east and south-east of the Dead Sea, in the land of Moab. From “the top of Pisgah”, i.e., Mount Nebo (q.v.), one of its summits, Moses surveyed the Promised Land (Deut. 3:27; 32:49), and there he died (34:1, 5). The Israelites had one of their encampments in the mountains of Abarim (Num. 33:47, 48) after crossing the Arnon.