Jordan

This Holy Week Jericho’s Place Travels and Blogs takes you to Mount Nebo, the promised land. It is located 10 kilometers Northwest of the Roman Byzantine town of Madaba, Jordan. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Mount Nebo is the mountain where Moses saw the Promised Land before he died. The site is now under the custody of Franciscans who is responsible for maintaining the area. Mount Nebo is mentioned under the book of Deuteronomy 34:1-6 New International Version (NIV) “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 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.” And Moses the servant of the Lord died there in Moab, as the Lord