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Pisgah in Naves Topical Bible

(A ridge or mountain east of the Jordan River, opposite to Jericho) -The Israelites come to Nu 21:20 -A boundary of the country assigned to the Reubenites and Gadites De 3:17; 4:49; Jos 12:3 -Balaam prophesies on Nu 23:14-24 -Moses views Israel from De 3:27; 34:1-4...

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Pisgah Scripture - Numbers 23:14

And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on [every] altar....

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Pisgah in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(section, i.e. peak), Nu 21:20; 23:14; De 3:27; 34:1 a mountain range or district, the same as or a part of, that called the mountains of Abarim. Comp. De 32:49 with Deut 34:1 It lay on the east of Jordan contiguous to the field of Moab, and immediately opposite Jericho. Its highest point or summit --its "head"--was Mount Nebo. [See NEBO]...

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Pisgah Scripture - Numbers 21:20

And from Bamoth [in] the valley, that [is] in the country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looketh toward Jeshimon....

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Pisgah in Easton's Bible Dictionary

a part, a mountain summit in the land of Moab, in the territory of Reuben, where Balak offered up sacrifices (Num. 21:20; 23:14), and from which Moses viewed the promised land (Deut. 3:27). It is probably the modern Jebel Siaghah. (See NEBO...

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Pisgah in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

A ridge of the Abarim mountains W. from Heshbon. Nebo was a town on, or near, that ridge, lying on its western slope (Numbers 21:20; Numbers 32:3; Numbers 32:38; Deuteronomy 32:49; Deuteronomy 34:1). From Pisgah, Israel gained their first view of the Dead Sea and Jordan valley; hence Moses too viewed the land of promise. The correct designatio...

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Pisgah in Hitchcock's Bible Names

hill; eminence; fortress...

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Pisgah Scripture - Deuteronomy 3:27

Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold [it] with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan....

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Pisgah Scripture - Deuteronomy 4:49

And all the plain on this side Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah....

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Pisgah in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

piz'-ga (ha-picgah; Phasga, to lelaxeumenon, he laxeute): This name, which has always the definite article, appears only in combination either with ro'sh, "head," "top," or 'ashdoth, not translated in the King James Version save in Dt 4:49, where it is rendered "springs" the Revised Version (British and American) uniformly "slopes," the Revise...

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