Аварим

Abarim is a mountain range in the country of Moab. This word in Hebrew is always accompanied by the term: gar-gaabarim (Num. 27:49). From various places of Holy Scripture, we know that the mountains of Abarim were “in the land of Moab” (Deut. 22:49), and their main peaks were Nebo, “in the face of Jericho,” Pisgah and Peor, from where one could view the Promised Land (Num. 22:12). It was there that the Lord ordered Moses to go before his death to give him the opportunity to look at the land of Canaan, to which the great lawgiver led his people, but which he was not destined to enter himself (Deut. 34:1). From there, Balaam examined the camp of Israel and wanted to curse it, but instead of a curse, he gave it a blessing (Num. 23:14–28). There Jeremiah hid the Tabernacle, the Ark of the Covenant and the altar of incense (2Mac 2:4). Finally, the same prophet adds this name to the names of Lebanon and Bashan in ch. 22, 20. Recent researchers (especially de Solcy, Tristram and Conder) give us extremely accurate and interesting details regarding this area, and fill the gap that has been felt for so long in biblical geography. They were convinced by their own experience of the accuracy of the biblical story, and claim that from these mountains one can indeed survey the Holy Land throughout its entire expanse. From the heights of Nebo the view stretches wonderfully eastward, from Hebron to Galilee, through Bethlehem. Jerusalem, Mount Gerizim, Ebal, and Tabor. “The Jordan winds like a great serpent through the valley, and the streams of the plain of Jericho descend serpentinely to unite with those that issue from the hills of Moab.” See S.K. for details. Conder, Heth and Moab London 1899, pp. 131–146; De-Saulcy, Voyage en Terre Sainte, Paris 1865, etc. See also below. Nebo, Pisgah.