Deuteronomy 34:1

Moses went up As commanded, Deuteronomy 3:27; Deuteronomy 32:49.

plains of Moab Heb. -arbôth Mo'ab, the parts of the -Arabah (see on Deuteronomy 1:1) reckoned as Moabite. The designation is peculiar to P, who gives it as Israel's last camp before crossing Jordan, Numbers 33:48-50, cp. Numbers 22:1; Numbers 26:3; Numbers 26:63; Numbers 31:12; Numbers 35:1; Numbers 36:13; Joshua 13:32, which place these -steppes" on Jordanand opposite Jericho. According to Deuteronomy 3:24-29 Moses ascended Nebo from Israel's immediately previous camp in the glen over against Beth-Pe-or, which is above the Jordan valley. But -arbôth Mo'abmay have been loosely held to cover this higher hollow that debouches on the -Arabah.

unto mount Nebo, the headland of the Pisgah The former is P's name for the mount (Deuteronomy 32:49), the latter that of E (Numbers 21:20; Numbers 23:14) and deuteron. writers, see on Deuteronomy 3:17. It is the headland which breaks from the plateau of Moab between Heshbon and Medaba under the name en-Nebâ (-mountain-back," Dalman MNPDV, 1900, p. 23) or en-Nebâ, and runs out to the S. of the W. -Uyûn Musa upon the N. end of the Dead Sea. From the high edge of the Plateau it dips a little, and so loses the view to the E. Israel's desert horizons for 40 years but the bulk of W. Palestine is in sight; only at first the nearer side of the Jordan valley is invisible, and N. and S. the view is hampered by the parallel headlands. Further W. however it rises somewhat into the Ras Siaghah, a promontory which, though lower than the Ras en-Nebâ, stands freer of the hills to N. and S. The whole of the -Arabah is now open from at least Engedi, and if the mist allows from still farther S., to where on the N. the hills of Gilead appear to meet those of Ephraim. The Jordan flows below, with Jericho visible beyond it. Over Gilead Hermon has been seen in fine weather. See further HGHL, 562 ff.

over against Jericho Lit. against the face of, i.e. (by Semitic orientation) to the E. of.

all the Land Gilead unto Dan, etc.] Not as in EVV. the land of Gilead. Danitself, either Tell-el-Ḳadi, on one of the sources of Jordan, or more probably on the neighbouring spur of Ḥermon above Banias (see above Deuteronomy 33:22, and HGHL, 473, 481), is not visible, but Ḥermon above it is sometimes seen; and Dan is mentioned as the N. limit of the land.