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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Nebo
The mountain in Moab where Moses looked over the promised land before he died, taken as Jebel Neba on the ridge of Pisgah east of the Dead Sea. A Reubenite town nearby had the same name, and the oracles against Moab condemn it.
The mountain in Moab where Moses looked over the promised land before he died, taken as Jebel Neba on the ridge of Pisgah east of the Dead Sea. A Reubenite town nearby had the same name, and the oracles against Moab condemn it.
Nebo was the Babylonian god of writing and wisdom, son of Marduk, whose worship spread into Assyria; Isaiah mocks the idol being carted off on beasts of burden as Babylon falls. The name also belonged to the mountain in Moab from which Moses viewed the promised land before his death, identified with Jebel Neba on the ridge of Pisgah east of the Dead Sea, and to a Reubenite town nearby rebuilt after the conquest and later condemned in Moab oracles for its idolatry. A separate town called Nebo in Benjamin gave its name to a family among the exiles who returned with Zerubbabel.
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- Numbers 32:3
- Numbers 32:38
- Numbers 33:47
- Deuteronomy 32:49
- Deuteronomy 34:1
- 1 Chronicles 5:8
- Isaiah 15:2
- Jeremiah 48:1
- Jeremiah 48:22
