The name Abarim means regions beyond and refers to regions east of the Jordan River. It refers to a mountain (Numbers 27:12And the LORD said unto Moses, Get thee up into this mount Abarim, and see the land which I have given unto the children of Israel.
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See All...) in the Eastern Range east of the Dead Sea and lower Jordan in the land of Moab (Numbers 21:11And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ijeabarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrising.
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The range offers many commanding views of the land west of the Jordan. They rise from 300 to 600 feet above the plateau and over 4,000 feet above the Dead Sea. From one of the highest of these, called Mount Nebo (Deuteronomy 32:49Get thee up into this mountain Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession:
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See All... with Deuteronomy 34:1And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the LORD shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan,
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