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12-725: Mount Pisgah is the name of several mountains and places: Communities [ edit ] Mount Pisgah, Georgia , an unincorporated community Mount Pisgah, Indiana , an unincorporated community in Milford Township, LaGrange County Mount Pisgah, Iowa , a semi-permanent settlement from 1846 to 1852 along the Mormon Trail Mount Pisgah, North Carolina (unincorporated community) Mount Pisgah, Ohio , an unincorporated community Mountains [ edit ] U.S. [ edit ] Mount Pisgah (Kennebec County, Maine) ,

24-441: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Mount Pisgah (Bible) 31°45′54″N 35°43′09″E  /  31.765095°N 35.719079°E  / 31.765095; 35.719079 Some translators of the biblical book of Deuteronomy translate Pisgah ( Hebrew : פִּסְגָּה ) as a name of a mountain, usually referring to Mount Nebo . The word פִּסְגָּה literally means "summit" . The region lies directly east of

36-513: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Mount Pisgah, Georgia The community probably took the name of a local church. The name ultimately is derived from Mount Pisgah , a place mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. 34°50′45″N 85°10′45″W  /  34.84583°N 85.17917°W  / 34.84583; -85.17917 This Catoosa County, Georgia state location article

48-507: The Book of Numbers , Chapter 23, Mount Pisgah is listed as one of several locations from which the Moabite King, Balak , tries unsuccessfully to persuade the prophet Balaam to curse Israel: "So he took him to the field of Zophim on the top of Pisgah, and there he built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar." (Numbers 23:14, NIV 2011 The Quran only circumstantially refers to

60-623: The Jordan River and just northeast of the Dead Sea . Mount Nebo (31°45.9'N 35°43.1'E) is the highest among a handful of Pisgah summits; an arid cluster of hilltops on the western edge of the Trans-Jordanian Plateau. Arabic names for Pisgah include: Fasga ( Phasga ), Jabal Siyāgha (transliterated also as Siaghah/Siâghah/Siyagha/Siyāgha, etc.), Rās as-Siyāgha and Rujm Siyāgha . In Deuteronomy , God commanded Moses to climb up and view

72-719: The Promised Land from Mount Nebo : "Then Moses climbed Mount Nebo from the plains of Moab to the top of Pisgah, across from Jericho . There the LORD showed him the whole land—from Gilead to Dan, all of Naphtali, the territory of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the Mediterranean Sea, the Negev and the whole region from the Valley of Jericho, the City of Palms, as far as Zoar. Then

84-745: The Blue Ridge Mountains Mount Pisgah (Lane County, Oregon) Mount Pisgah, Bradford County, Pennsylvania , in Glaciated Low Plateau region, also known as the Endless Mountains Mount Pisgah, Carbon County, Pennsylvania Mount Pisgah, York County, Pennsylvania Mount Pisgah (Vermont) , in Westmore Elsewhere [ edit ] Mount Pisgah (Quebec) , in Appalachian Mountains, at

96-619: The Deuteronomy events in sura 5 ( Al-Ma'ida ), ayah 22–26, where Moses's debates with the Israelites near Jericho are mentioned. Both Deuteronomy and the Quran locate Moses's place of death in this region, though they disagree about the fate of his body. The mountain is known as the first location where Moses viewed the promised land as described in the Old Testament. This article related to

108-417: The LORD said to him, “This is the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob when I said, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’ I have let you see it with your eyes, but you will not cross over into it.” (Deuteronomy 34:1–4). A literal translation of the beginning of this passage from Hebrew into English might run: "Then Moses ascended from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, top of the summit...". In

120-995: The border of Quebec and Maine Mount Pisgah (Bible) , the mountain in the Bible from which Moses saw the Promised Land for the first time Mount Pisgah (Smith Island) , in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica Mount Pisgah (Victoria) , a small volcanic lava dome in Australia Other [ edit ] Mount Pisgah Academy , Candler, North Carolina Mount Pisgah Arboretum , near Eugene, Oregon Mount Pisgah Benevolence Cemetery , Romney, West Virginia Mount Pisgah Christian School , Johns Creek, Georgia Mt. Pisgah State Park , near Troy, Pennsylvania See also [ edit ] All pages with titles beginning with Mount Pisgah Pisgah Mountain , Pennsylvania Pisgah (disambiguation) Topics referred to by

132-714: The fifth highest point in Kennebec County, Maine Mount Pisgah (Massachusetts) , the highest point in Northborough, Massachusetts Mount Pisgah (New York) , in the Catskill Mountains of New York southeast of Bovina Center Mount Pisgah (Greene County, New York) , in the Catskill Mountains of New York north of Windham Mount Pisgah (mountain in North Carolina) , in the Appalachian Mountain Range and

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