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Abarim is the mountain range east of the Jordan and the Dead Sea in the land of Moab, including heights such as Pisgah and Nebo. It is important because it is the range from which Moses viewed the promised land before his death. First appears in Num 27:12.1
AI summary: Abarim gathers together some of the most solemn geography in the Pentateuch. It is part of Israel's final encampment region beyond the Jordan, but above all it is remembered as the mountain range from which Moses looks across to the land he will not enter. That makes Abarim a place of completion, longing, judgment, and fulfilled promise seen from afar. Jeremiah's later use of the name shows it remained evocative beyond the wilderness narratives. The cross references present Abarim as a ridge of final vision and transition at the edge of Israel's inheritance.1
Regions beyond; i.e., on the east of Jordan, a mountain, or rather a mountain-chain, over against Jericho, to the east and south-east of the Dead Sea, in the land of Moab. From “the top of Pisgah”, i.e., Mount Nebo (q.v.), one of its summits, Moses surveyed the Promised Land (Deut. 3:27; 32:49), and there he died (34:1, 5). The Israelites had one of their encampments in the mountains of Abarim (Num. 33:47, 48) after crossing the Arnon. 3
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Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.