Nebo (1)

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1. A town of Moab, taken possession of by Reuben. Also the Mount of Moab, from which Moses viewed Canaan (Deu_32:49; Deu_34:1). Pisgah was a ridge of the Abarim mountains, W. from Heshbon. Nebo was a part of Pisgah named from the town, NEBO close by. Isa_15:2, "Moab shall howl 'at' (al) Nebo." (Jer_48:1; Num_32:3; Num_32:38; Num_33:47). As Israel's encampment was "before Nebo," i.e. to the E. of Nebo, probably Nebo was on Pisgah's western slope. The peakless, horizontal straightness of the ridge caused the parts to be distinguished only by the names of adjoining villages. As Nebo "faced Jericho," and "the ravine of Moses' burying place in Moab faced Beth-Peor," Attarus suggested by Seetzen is too far S., and jebel el Jilad too far N. to correspond. Grove suggests jebel Nebbah, S. of wady Hesban.
2. "The other (town) NEBO" was W. of Jordan, in Benjamin (Ezr_2:29; Ezr_10:43; Neh_7:33). Perhaps Beit Nubah.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.

nē?bō (נבו, nebhō; Assyrian Nabu): The Babylonian god of literature and science. In the Babylonian mythology he is represented as the son and interpreter of Bel-merodach (compare Isa_46:1; Bel and Nebo there represent Babylon). His own special shrine was at Borsippo. His planet was Mercury. His name enters into Biblical names, as ?Nebuchadnezzar,? and perhaps ?Abed-nego? (Dan_1:7, for ?Abed-nebo, servant of Nebo?). See BABYLONIA AND ASSYRIA, RELIGION OF.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.

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