Nebo (biblical town)
Nebo (Hebrew: נבו Nəḇō; also Nabo, Nebai, Nobai) is a town name mentioned in several passages of the Hebrew Bible (or Old Testament of Christianity).[1] It is used for two towns, one in the territory assigned in the Bible to the Tribe of Reuben, and another in that of the Tribe of Judah.[2]
The Reubenite Nebo is mentioned in
Moabites at the time when Isaiah prophesied against it (Isaiah 15:2; cf. Jeremiah 48:1, 22). The Mesha Stele (lines 14–18) boasts of having taken it from the Israelites. According to Saint Jerome,[4] the sanctuary of the idol Chemosh
was in Nebo.
See also
References
- ^ Numbers 32:3; Jeremiah 48:1, 22; I Chronicles 5:8; Isaiah 15:2, etc.
- ^ a b Thomas Kelly Cheyne (1901) [1899]. "Nebo". In T. K. Cheyne; J. Sutherland Black (eds.). Encyclopaedia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary, Political, and Religious History, the Archaeology, Geography, and Natural History of the Bible. Vol. 3, L–P. New York: The Macmillan Company.
- S2CID 225574915.
- ^ Commentary on Isaiah 15:2, in P.L., XXIV, 168
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Nabo (Nebo)". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.