A Geographical Dictionary of the Holy Scriptures Including Also Notices of the Chief Places and People Mentioned in the Apocrypha Classic Reprint

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Abarim, mt., or avar'im, or mountains OF abarim, a range of mountains on the E. Side of Jordan, partly forming the frontier of the Moa bites, Ammonites, and also of the tribe of Reuben. The word signifies passages; and hence it has been supposed that this range of mountains de rived its name from the various passages over them from one country to another. Others, how ever, connect the origin of the name with the ancient mythology of_ the country. It extended a considerable way into the territories of the Reubenites; and a portion of it is described by Eusebius, as lying 6 miles E. Of Heshbon. It is mentioned in Deut. Xxxii. As being over against Jericho, and is so described by Josephus. It contained the several summits of Nebo, Pis gah, and Peor, Num. Xxiii xxvii. Deut iii. Xxxii. Xxxiv. 1. It was so lofty that from it Moses had his eyes strengthened to view the whole of the Promised Land, from Dan and Lebanon on the N. To its S. Borders and the Mediterranean Sea, Deut. Iii. 24 - 27, xxxiv. 1 - 4. It was on one of the summits of this mountain that Moses died. The children of Israel, after they had crossed the R. Arnon, pitched their camp for a time in the Mountains of Abarim, Num. Xxxiii. 47, whence they withdrew to the' Plains of Moab, by Jordan. Another of their encampments, called in our translation Ije-abarim, Num. Xxi. Xxxiii. And in our margin Heaps of Abarim, is rendered by some scholars Iim on Mt. Aba im (cf. Num. Xxxiii. If this be correct, it would seem that the general range of the Abarim must have extended a long way further S. Into Arabia Petraea, or else there must have been two mountains of the same name. The words rendered cry from the pas sages, in our version of J er. Xxii. Are other wise translated by some cry from Abarim. Eusebius and Jerome describe part of the moun tain-ridge near Heshbon as retaining in their days the name of Abarim.

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