Mount Nebo
Where Mount Nebo sits on the map, and the 2 verses where it appears, in biblical order and linked to the full chapter.
- Identified with
- Jabal al Naba
- Coordinates
- 31.7667, 35.7500
- Mentions
- 2 mentions
Coordinates and the modern identification come from the open atlas at OpenBible.info. For regions, peoples and large features there is no identification: the marked point only places the area on the map, and stands for neither a particular site nor its boundaries.
Can you visit it today?
From the summit you look over the Jordan valley, the Dead Sea and, on a clear day, the heights of Jerusalem. The Moses memorial shelters a Byzantine church whose sixth-century mosaics survive almost entire, among them a large hunting and herding scene.
- Where it is
- In Jordan, 10 km north-west of Madaba, on the edge of the plateau some 800 m above the valley floor.
What to read there
The passage that gives this site its meaning, to read while you are here.
Deuteronomy 34, 1-8Open in the readerPassages where it appears
2 verses, in biblical order.
Deuteronomy
- Deuteronomy 32:49
“Ascend this mountain, Abarim, (that is, of crossings) onto Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, opposite Jericho, and look upon the land of Canaan, which I will deliver to the sons of Israel to obtain it. And you shall die upon the mountain.
- Deuteronomy 34:1
Therefore, Moses ascended from the plains of Moab onto Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, opposite Jericho. And the Lord revealed to him the entire land of Gilead, as far as Dan,
Routes that pass through here
Tabor itineraries with a stop at this place.