Pisgah, a name that seems to have applied generally to the mountain-range or district to the east of the Lower Jordan, identical with, or itself a part of, the mountains of Abarim (Deut. xxxii. 49; xxxiv. 1), one of the summits of which is Mount Nebo (the modern Neba), 2644 feet above the level of the Mediterranean. From this point Moses enjoyed his glimpse of the Promised Land, in early spring. It is not the highest point among the spurs which here run out from the Moabite plateau, but Major Conder points out that it is the nearest ridge to the Israelite camp in the plain of Shittim. He describes the view to the east as shut in but two miles off by the shelving edge of the Moabite plateau, and to the south as closed five miles off by a long ridge, but that to the west as including all the Judean watershed, and in clear weather all Samaria and Lower Galilee, as far as Tabor and the chain of Gilboa. The Sea of Galilee and Hermon are shut out by the lofty range of Penuel (Jebel Osh'a) in Gilead, while the western watershed of Judea and Samaria makes it impossible to see the waters of the Mediterranean; but below to the south-west the northern half of the Dead Sea is seen, bordered by the precipices of Engedi, beyond which stretches the dreary Jeshimon or desert of Judah. The burial-place of Moses is unknown, but may have been, suggests Conder, in the terrible gorge of the Zerka M'ain, on the south side of the cliff of Peor, or Minyeh, the
Callihoe of the tyrant Herod's days. Its old Hebrew name appears to have been Nehaliel ('the valley of God').
Of the three stations from which Balaam watched the encampment of Israel, Conder makes the first Bamoth-Baal (Mashubiyeh), a high ridge separated from Nebo by a deep valley; the second, the ridge of Nebo itself; the third, the top of Peor, over against Jeshimon, a cliff called Minyeh.