2 Maccabees 2: 4-10, written around 100 BC, says that the prophet Jeremiah, " being warned by God " before the Babylonian invasion, took the Ark, the Tabernacle, and the Altar of Incense, and buried them in a cave on Mount Nebo ( Jordan ), informing those of his followers who wished to find the place that it should remain unknown " until the time that God should gather His people again together, and receive them unto mercy.

He then went up Mount Nebo to the top of Pisgah, looked over the promised land of Israel spread out before him, and died, at the age of one hundred and twenty, according to Talmudic legend on 7 Adar, his 120th birthday exactly.

Memorial of Moses, Mount Nebo, Jordan

Abarim ( Hebrew: ה ָ ר ֵ י ה ָ ע ֲ ב ָ ר ִ ים, Har Ha -' Avarim, Harei Ha -' Avarim ; Septuagint to oros to Abarim, en to peran tou Iordanou, mountain Abarim, mountains of Abarim ) is a mountain range across Jordan, to the east and south-east of the Dead Sea, extending from Mount Nebo — its highest point — in the north, perhaps to the Arabian desert in the south.

Its northern part was called Phasga ( or Pisgah ), and the highest peak of Phasga was Mount Nebo ( Numbers 23: 14 ; 27: 12 ; 21: 20 ; 32: 47 ; Deuteronomy 3: 27 ; 34: 1 ; 32: 49 ).

From " the top of Pisgah ," i. e., Mount Nebo, an area which belonged to Moab, Moses surveyed the Promised Land ( Deuteronomy 3: 27 ; 32: 49 ), and there he died ( 34: 1, 5 ).

The elevation ranges from above sea level at the lake to at the peak of Mount Nebo.

In the north are a number of long, deep ravines, and Mount Nebo, famous as the scene of the death of Moses.

* Old Mount Nebo Cemetery

* Mount Nebo District

Founded in 1840, the city is named for the biblical Mount Nebo.

* Marcus Dupree, football player for the NFL and USFL, also known for building the Mount Nebo Baptist Church in Philadelphia.

* There are more dead people than living in Totowa, as the borough includes five active cemeteries: Holy Sepulchre Roman Catholic Cemetery, Laurel Grove Cemetery, Laurel Grove Memorial Park, Mount Nebo Jewish Cemetery, and the A. M. White Lodge Jewish Cemetery.

Mona is at the foot of Mount Nebo, the southernmost and highest mountain in the Wasatch Range.

On the western side of Utah Valley, the lake is overlooked by Mount Timpanogos and Mount Nebo.

Mount Nebo reaches an altitude of, and Mount Timpanogos reaches an altitude of, nearly above the valley floor.

Through western Arkansas, the river valley passes through high, isolated, flat-topped mesas, buttes, or monadnocks, such as Mount Nebo and Petit Jean Mountain, and Mount Magazine, the highest point in the state.

H. A. Whittaker ( 1987 ) proposes that it was Mount Nebo primarily on the basis that it was the location where Moses viewed the promised land and a parallelism in Jesus ' words on descent from the mountain of transfiguration ; " You will say to this mountain ( i. e. of transfiguration ), ‘ Move from here to there ,’ ( i. e. the promised land ) and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.

Other notable peaks in this region include Mount Nebo, Pinnacle Mountain, and Sugarloaf Knob.

At, Mount Nebo, a triple peak rising above Nephi, Utah at the southern end of the range, is the highest peak of the Wasatch.

West side of Mount Nebo ( Utah ) | Mount Nebo, the highest peak in the Wasatch range.

The Griffins assigned spiritual values to Mount Ainslie, Black Mountain, and Red Hill and originally planned to cover each of these in flowers.

Mountain biking began in the 1970s, originally as a downhill sport, practised on customized cruiser bikes around Mount Tamalpais.

One might note, however, that what is assumed to be a niche for the Torah scroll in the building probably originally built as a Judeo-Christian synagogue between AD 70 and AD 135 on the traditional site of the Cenacle or upper room of the Last Supper and now identified as the site of the King David's Tomb is oriented not towards the Temple Mount, but towards the site of the Holy Sepulchre, which would seem to indicate that the Christian community that had built it had already began to transfer many of the religious traditions originally associated with the Temple to the sites they associated with Christ's death and resurrection ( such as the burial place of Adam and the centre of the world ).

Rabbinic tradition holds that the details and interpretation of the law, which are called the Oral Torah or oral law, were originally an unwritten tradition based upon what God told Moses on Mount Sinai.

The peak was discovered in 1871 and originally named Mount Kaufmann after Konstantin Kaufman, the first Governor-General of Turkestan.

According to the Hebrew Bible, Mount Moriah was originally a threshing-floor owned by Araunah, a Jebusite.

The western wall of the Temple Mount rose up from the bottom of this valley to the height of 84 feet, where it was on a level with the area, and above this, and as a continuance of it, the wall of Solomon's cloister rose to the height of about 50 feet, " so that this section of the wall would originally present to view a stupendous mass of masonry scarcely to be surpassed by any mural masonry in the world.

The Temple Mount was originally intended to be 1600 feet wide by 900 feet deep by 9 stories high, with walls up to 16 feet deep, but had never been finished.

The island derived its name from Mount Royal ( French Mont Royal, then pronounced ), and gradually spread its name to the town, which had originally been called Ville-Marie.

Cynthia was originally an epithet of the Greek goddess of the moon, Artemis, who was sometimes called " Cynthia " because, according to legend, the goddess was born on Mount Cynthus.

Mount Clare ( grade I ) built in 1772 for George Clive, cousin of Lord Clive, which forms part of the University of Roehampton, along with Grove House ( grade II *), built originally for Sir Joshua Vanneck in 1777 ( also now owned by the University ).

The Louisiana Baptist Convention was founded in 1848 at historic Mount Lebanon Baptist Church in the community of Mount Lebanon, originally settled by pioneers from South Carolina.

The school was originally founded in 1837 by Mary Lyon as Mount Holyoke Female Seminary.

Mount Holyoke Female Seminary was originally chartered as a teaching seminary in 1836 and opened its doors to students on 8 November 1837.

The area known as Bonsall was originally called Mount Fairview.

On the Northeastern edge of town ( Mount Hope Village ), the playwright, actor and producer Willard Mack owned a large estate ( originally built by William Fisk ).

While originally an iron mining town, the area is now known for its downhill skiing resorts, including Big Powderhorn, Blackjack, Indianhead, Mount Zion and Whitecap as well as its cross country skiing at the Wolverine Nordic Trail System.

Burlington was originally the county seat of Burlington County but in 1796, as the population had been increasing to the east away from the Delaware River, the county seat was moved to Mount Holly Township, a more central location.

What is now Mount Holly was originally formed as Northampton on November 6, 1688.

What is now Southampton was originally incorporated as Coaxen Township by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 10, 1845, from portions of Northampton Township ( now known as Mount Holly Township ).

Rhyne and Ambrose Costner originally owned the Mount Holly Cotton Mill.

* PBR bull rider Dustin Hall is originally from Wellston ( and now resides in Mount Vernon, Missouri ).

Located in Catharine Township is the Mount Etna Furnace Complex, originally listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 and expanded in 1991.